

The Lacuna employees work on Joel's brain as he sleeps in his apartment so that he will wake up with no memory of the procedure. In preparation, he records a tape for Kruczynski, recounting his memories of their volatile relationship. Heartbroken and devastated, he decides to undergo the same procedure.

Joel Barish discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski, has had her memories of him erased by the New York City firm Lacuna, following a fight between the two. Bismuth, Gondry and Kaufman won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film was a box office success, grossing $74 million on a $20 million budget, and was named by the American Film Institute one of the Top 10 Films of 2004. Įternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened in theaters in the United States on March 19, 2004, to universal acclaim from critics and audiences, who praised the visual style, editing, writing, score, themes, Gondry's direction, and the performances of the cast, especially Carrey and Winslet. It uses elements of psychological drama, science fiction, and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and love. The title of the film is a quotation from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. The film became a cult classic in the years since its release and is considered by many critics as one of the best films of the 2000s, and one of the greatest films of all time. The film follows two individuals who undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories following the dissolution of their relationship. It stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, with Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson in supporting roles.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction drama film directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman, based on a story by Gondry, Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth.
