2004 · sci-fi · romance · drama
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Directed by Michel Gondry1h 48m2004
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Our read: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal sci-fi · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured sci-fi / romance, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- inventive
- tender
- intimate
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