Film · 2004 · Romantic comedy

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Directed by Michel Gondry
2004
★ 8.9 editorial score

No romance this century has come close: Kaufman's premise, that you could pay to have someone erased, turns out to be the most honest thing anyone has said about breakups.

“The wisdom in "Eternal Sunshine" is how it illuminates the way memory interacts with love. We more readily recall pleasure than pain. From the hospital I remember laughing nurses and not sleepless nights….An unsuccessful romantic lover remembers the times when it worked. What Joel and Clementine cling to are those perfect moments when lives seem blessed by heaven, and sunshine will fall upon it forever.”
— Roger Ebert · rogerebert.com

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