![]() ![]() Joel drives Clementine home and Patrick sees them, realizing they have found each other again. They are drawn to each other and go on a date to the frozen Charles River in Boston. He impulsively goes to Montauk and meets Clementine on the train home. Joel wakes up, his memories of Clementine erased. Disgusted, Mary steals the Lacuna records and mails them to the patients, including Joel and Clementine. Furious, she tells Howard to tell Mary the truth: that Mary and Howard previously had an affair, and that Mary had her memories erased. Howard's wife arrives, and, from the street, sees them through the window. In Joel's apartment, while Stan is outside, Mary tells Howard she is in love with him and they kiss. As the memory crumbles around them, Clementine tells Joel to meet her in Montauk. Joel comes to his last remaining memory of Clementine: the day they first met, on a beach in Montauk. This halts the procedure, but Stan calls his boss, Howard, who arrives and restarts it. His mental projection of Clementine suggests that Joel hide her in memories that do not involve her. As he reaches earlier, happier memories, he realizes that he does not want to forget her. Joel re-experiences his memories of Clementine as they are erased, starting with their last fight. While the procedure runs on Joel's brain, technician Stan and secretary Mary party and have sex. One employee, Patrick, leaves to see Clementine since her procedure, he has been using Joel's and Clementine's memories as a guide for seducing her. 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. 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 romance films of all time. 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 follows two individuals who undergo a procedure to erase eachother 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. ![]()
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