Really creative way to look at the nature of love and relationships without getting preachy.

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2004)

I think Kauffman (in collaboration with Gondry) has pushed the envelope yet again with genre and structure. The result is a completely inventive and fresh take on a pretty basic love story: 2 lovers break up, then get back together again. Conventional, until you account for how Kauffman tells it. He gets lots of mileage out of the "memory erasing" plot device and Gondry has a great time editing the story like a Mobius strip (one of those endless looping stories where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning). (The images Gondry wrings out of the script are pretty great too). Along the way we get a love story between 2 very different people with lots of ups and downs, who ultimately decide they can't live without each other. Though it's never preachy (and that's the beauty of it), Kauffman is saying even though relationships can start off like mad-crazy love and often wind up boring-blase, that's the glory of it. It ain't perfect. I hate to make the comparison, but it's like "Memento," only with heart.