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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichel Gondry
Screenplay byCharlie Kaufman
Story by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEllen Kuras
Edited byValdís Óskarsdóttir
Music byJon Brion
Production
companies
Distributed byFocus Features
Release date
  • March 19, 2004 (2004-03-19)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[1]
Box office$72.3 million[1]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American science fiction romance film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. It follows an estranged couple who have erased each other from their memories, then, started dating again. Pierre Bismuth created the story with Kaufman and Gondry. The ensemble cast includes Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson. The title of the film is a quotation from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope.

The film uses elements of the psychological thriller and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and romantic love.[2] It opened in North America to wide acclaim on March 19, 2004, and grossed over $70 million worldwide.[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. The film developed a cult following in the years after its release and is now regarded by many critics as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.[3]

Plot

Train station of Montauk where Joel and Clementine meet each other again after erasing of their memories.

Shy, soft-spoken Joel Barish and unrestrained free-spirit Clementine Kruczynski begin a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk to Rockville Centre. They are almost immediately drawn to each other, despite their contrasting personalities, and both had felt the need to travel to Montauk that day. Although they do not realize it, Joel and Clementine are, former lovers, now separated after having spent two years together. After a fight, Clementine had hired the New York City firm Lacuna, Inc. to erase all of her memories of their relationship. Upon discovering this from his friends Rob and Carrie, Joel was devastated and decided to undergo the procedure himself, a process that takes place while he sleeps.

Much of the film subsequently takes place in Joel's mind, during this memory erasure procedure. Joel finds himself revisiting his memories of Clementine in reverse, starting from the disintegration of their relationship. As he comes across happier, positive memories of Clementine early in his relationship, he decides to preserve at least some memory of her and his love for her, trying to evade the procedure by taking his idealized memory of Clementine into memories not related to her, or waking up to stop the process. Despite his efforts, the memories are steadily erased. He comes to the last remaining memory of Clementine, the day he had first met her at a beach house in Montauk. As this memory disintegrates around them, she tells him, "Meet me in Montauk."

Separate, but related, story arcs revolving around the employees of Lacuna are revealed during Joel's memory erasure. Patrick, one of the Lacuna technicians performing the erasure, uses Joel's memories and mannerisms to seduce and romance Clementine. Mary, the Lacuna receptionist, is dating the other memory-erasing technician, Stan, but has feelings for Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, the married doctor and head of Lacuna. During Joel's memory wipe, Mary discovers she had previously had an affair with Dr. Mierzwiak and agreed to have this erased from her memory when Dr. Mierzwiak's wife found out. On learning this, she asks Stan whether he knew about this, to which he claims that he didn't. Mary then quits her job and steals the company's records, mailing them to all of Lacuna's customers out of revenge.

The film returns to the present, after Joel and Clementine have met at the train station of Montauk. They both come upon their Lacuna records later that day, and react with shock and bewilderment – they have no clear memory of having known each other, let alone having had a relationship and having had their memories erased. Joel pleads with Clementine to restart their relationship; Clementine initially resists, pointing out it could go the same way. Joel accepts this and they decide to try anyway.

Cast

Top to bottom: Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski respectively
  • Jim Carrey as Joel Barish: Joel is an introvert who enters a two-year relationship with Clementine Kruczynski before erasing her from his memory after they break-up and after she erases him from her memory. Joel was written with personality traits drawn from Charlie Kaufman.[4] Carrey was cast against type for his role as Joel.[4] Carrey was chosen for his normal appearance, as well as his ability to be funny, as, according to Michel Gondry, "[I]t's hard to be funny. It's far easier to take someone really funny and bring them down than do the opposite."[5] To make Carrey, a typically high energy actor play a restrained character, unlike the rest of the cast he was not allowed to improvise, which Carrey did not like,[6] and Gondry would put Carrey off balance by giving wrong orders or by rolling the camera at the wrong time. Gondry believed this would make Carrey forget what he should do to be the character, allowing him to go in-character.[4] In the 2017 Netflix documentary Jim & Andy, Carrey mentions a conversation with Gondry one year before shooting began for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, shortly after Carrey had a breakup with an unspecified woman.[7] Gondry saw that Carrey's emotional state at the time was "so beautiful, so broken" and asked him to stay that way for one year to fit the character. In the documentary, Carrey commented, "That's how fucked up this business is."[8][9] Nicholas Cage was Gondry's original choice to play Joel,[6] but Cage was unable to do the role as he was in high demand from independent directors after his performance in Leaving Las Vegas.[5]
  • Ryan Whitney as young Joel
  • Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski: Clementine is a spontaneous extrovert who enters a two-year relationship with Joel Barish, before erasing him after they break-up. Winslet was cast against type for her role as Clementine,[4] having previously featured in period pieces,[10] and received the role after she was the only actress to offer a criticism on the script instead of pandering to the writers.[5] After another actress won an Oscar, the studio attempted to make Gondry use her instead of Winslet for the role of Clementine, but Gondry threatened to walk from the project if that occurred.[5] During filming, Gondry took Winslet to separate rooms to coach her,[5] and she wore wigs instead of dying her hair.[10] The character of Clementine has been noted several times to serve as a critique of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stock character, before the phrase itself had been coined. The character's criticism of the stock character is predominantly present in her remark: "Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."[11][12]
  • Lola Daehler as young Clementine
  • Kirsten Dunst as Mary Svevo: Mary is the receptionist for Lacuna who has a crush on Howard. While erasing Joel's memory, she is caught by Howard's wife kissing Howard, and it is revealed that they have in the past had a relationship, but she had it erased from her memory. In revenge, she mails Lacuna's company records to the customers.
  • Mark Ruffalo as Stan Fink: Stan is a technician for Lacuna who is in a relationship with Mary, until it is revealed to her she was previously in a relationship with Howard. Ruffalo received the role of Stan after providing an "unexpected take on the role" to Gondry, when he suggested Stan be a fan of The Clash and look like Joe Strummer.[5]
  • Elijah Wood as Patrick: Patrick is a technician for Lacuna who enters a relationship with Clementine by imitating Joel. They breakup when Joel and Clementine begin dating for the second time.
  • Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Howard Mierzwiak: Howard runs Lacuna. Before the film's events he had an affair with Mary, which ended with her memory being erased. Wilkinson did not enjoy the shooting of the film and was difficult to work with.[5][13]
  • Jane Adams as Carrie Eakin: Joel's friend. She is in a troubled relationship with Rob.
  • David Cross as Rob Eakin: Joel's friend. He is in a troubled relationship with Carrie.
  • Debbon Ayer as Joel's mother

Production

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot?
The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned;

Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 207-10

Development

The concept of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind came from 1998 conversations between Michel Gondry and the film's co-writer Pierre Bismuth.[14] The pair had met and become friends in the early 1980s during Gondry's drumming career in the French pop group Oui Oui.[15] Bismuth had conceived the idea of erasing people from minds in response to a friend complaining about her boyfriend when he asked her if she would erase him from her memory; she said yes.[15][16] Bismuth originally was going to conduct an art experiment involving sending cards to people saying they had been erased from the memory of someone they knew.[17] When he mentioned this to Gondry, they developed it into a story based on if it was scientifically possible, what situations would arise as a result.[15][17] Bismuth never conducted the experiment.[17]

Gondry approached Charlie Kaufman with this concept, the two having worked previously together for Kaufman's Human Nature.[16][17] Gondry and Kaufman together further developed the story into a short pitch.[18] While the writers didn't believe the script to be marketable, a small bidding war began over the pitch,[14][18][19] before it was purchased on June 12, 1998, for a low seven-figure sum by Steve Golin of Propaganda Films.[4][20] Kaufman, who was responsible for writing the screenplay, did not begin immediately, instead opting to suspend writing while he was working on the other projects of Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Human Nature.[14] During this time, the film Memento was released, which similarly deals with memory. Due to the similarities, Kaufman became worried and attempted to pull out of the project, but Golin made him complete it.[4] During writing, the pitch changed hands several times, thus Kaufman did not have to deal with the studios until the end of the scriptwriting process.[14] The final script made the studios nervous.[14]

Kaufman did not want to make the film a thriller and wanted to downplay the science fiction aspects of memory erasure, focusing on the relationship.[14][17][19] He had an "enormous struggle" with the script, particularly encountering two problems while writing the script: showing the memories, Joel's reactions to the memories, and Joel interacting with Clementine outside of the memories in the memories, and how a memory could be referred to in later scenes after it was deleted.[14] The first problem was solved by making Joel lucid and able to comment on his memories, and the second was solved by making the memories degrade instead of immediately erasing, with complete erasure occurring at awakening.[14] Kaufman's original title for the screenplay was 18 words long, as he had wanted a title which "you couldn't possibly fit on a marquee,"[21] however, he eventually decided on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a title coming from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope.[22]

Production

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was shot over three months with six weeks of preparation on a budget of $20 million mostly in and around New York City.[6][23] Some key scenes, however, such as Joel's Yonkers apartment and the 1950s-style kitchen, were recreated in a New Jersey former U.S. Navy base.[23]

The shoot was challenging for cinematographer Ellen Kuras, due to the difficulty of filming Gondry's vision for the film, which aimed to "blend location-shoot authenticity with unpredictable flashes of whimsy." This involved Gondry wanting the film to be shot exclusively in available light, which Kuras disagreed with.[23] Kuras would get around this by lighting the room instead of the actors and hiding light bulbs around set to increase the set's light levels. Another issue encountered by the cinematographers was the frequent improvisation, the lack of marks and the few rehearsals completed, meaning the cinematographers often did not know where the actors would be. To deal with this, two handheld cameras filmed near 360-degree footage at all times,[23] shooting 36 000 feet of film a day.[13] Filming was completed without using traditional dollies, instead, Gondry called back to the work of famed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard by filming using wheelchairs as well as using sled and chariot dollies. When using wheelchairs, the shot was not consistently smooth, however, the footage was used as Kuras liked the aesthetic of low angle, wobbly movement.[23]

Minimal CGI was used, with many of the film's effects accomplished in-camera, through forced perspectives, hidden space, spotlighting, unsynchronised sound, split focus and continuity editing.[17] A notable example is the washing away of the house in Montauk by waves; this was accomplished by building the corner of a house on the shore and allowing the tide to come in.[6] This effect had difficulty being carried out, as the special team hired to place the place the set in the water refused, citing dangers. Gondry in response fired the team and had the production team, including the actors and producers, place the set in the water. In retaliation for Gondry's actions, he was reprimanded in front of the crew by the chief of the union.[24]

The script underwent rewriting during production by Kaufman, thus several discrepancies exist between the production script and the final film.[18] A key difference is in the script with the degradation of a memory of Clementine, she would be acted increasingly robotically.[14] In the film, the role is played straight and memory degradation is visually established through degradation of setting and settings intruding on each other. Another script component which did not make it into the final film was the appearance of Naomi, Joel's girlfriend. While her scenes were filmed, they were cut despite Kaufman's insistence they be included.[14]

Charlie Kaufman was very involved in the editing of the film, and was a long process due to there being no need to rush.[18][4] There were a few test screenings of the film, which elicited positive reactions.[18]

Release

Produced on a budget of $20 million, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened on March 19, 2004 in the United States, earning $8,175,198 in its opening weekend in 1,353 theaters. The film placed seventh in the weekend's box office, and remained in theaters for 19 weeks, earning $34,400,301 in the United States and $37,857,825 in international markets for a total of $72,258,126 worldwide.[25] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is, as of June 2018, Kaufman's most profitable, and Gondry's second most profitable film.[26][27]

Home media

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was released on DVD on September 28, 2004 by Universal Home Entertainment.[28] A Blu-ray edition was released in the U.S. on January 25, 2011.[29]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% "Certified Fresh" rating, based on 238 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Propelled by Charlie Kaufman's smart, imaginative script and Michel Gondry's equally daring directorial touch, Eternal Sunshine is a twisty yet heartfelt look at relationships and heartache."[30] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 89 out of 100, based on 41 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[31]

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a perfect four stars, referring to Kaufman as "the most gifted screenwriter of the 2000s" and including it on his "Great Movies" list.[32] A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised the film for being "cerebral, formally and conceptually complicated, dense with literary allusions and as unabashedly romantic as any movie you'll ever see".[33] Time Out summed up their review by saying, "the formidable Gondry/Kaufman/Carrey axis works marvel after marvel in expressing the bewildering beauty and existential horror of being trapped inside one's own addled mind, and in allegorising the self-preserving amnesia of a broken but hopeful heart."[34]

In 2006, in issue 201 of Empire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was voted No. 83 in their 201 Greatest Movies of All Time poll as voted for by readers. That same year, Winslet's performance as Clementine was included in Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time at No. 81. Claudia Puig, reviewer in USA Today said about her performance that "Winslet is wonderful as a free spirit whose hair color changes along with her moods. She hasn't had such a meaty role in a while, and she plays it just right."[35]

In 2008, Carol Vernallis pointed out that Gondry's experience in directing music videos contributed to the film's mise-en-scène and sound design. Vernallis describes some threads of the visual, aural and musical motifs throughout the film, and how some motifs can work in counterpoint.[36]

In November 2009, Time Out New York ranked the film as the third-best of the decade, beaten by There Will Be Blood (No. 2) and Mulholland Drive (No. 1):

"In the past, both director Michel Gondry's kindergarten arts-and-crafts aesthetic and Charlie Kaufman's Möbius-striptease scripts have come off as insufferably twee and gimmicky. So why does this existential meta-rom-com always leave us teary-eyed and genuinely moved? ... [T]he duo finally finds the right combination of high-concept and humanity here, taking the what-if idea of a company that lobotomizes the lovelorn into territory that's funny, painful, poetic and unsettlingly weird."[37]

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Only the bizarre and byzantine brain of Charlie Kaufman could turn this 2004 story about erasing all memories of love into one of the most romantic movies of the decade."[38] Slant Magazine placed the film at number 87 on their list of the best films of the 2000s.[39] Paste Magazine named it one of the 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009), ranking it at number 5.[40]

At the end of 2009, The Onion's A.V. Club rated Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as the number one film of the 2000s, beating out Christopher Nolan's Memento and the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men. The article states, "It's the rare film that shows us who we are now and who we're likely, for better or worse, forever to be."[41] In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay of the film at No. 24 on its list of "101 Greatest Screenplays".[42] In a 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics around the world, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was voted the sixth greatest film since 2000.[43] Aggregation site They Shoot Pictures, Don't They has also found it to be the 5th most acclaimed film of the same time period.[44]

Metacritic ranked the film as the second-best film of the decade, beaten only by There Will Be Blood.[45]

Accolades

Main article: List of accolades received by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Kaufman, Gondry, and Bismuth won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Media Recognitions

Year Presenter Title Rank Notes
2005 Writers Guild of America 101 Greatest Screenplays 24 [46][47]
2008 Empire The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time 73 [48]
2009 Time Out New York The TONY Top 50 Movies of the Decade 3 [37]
Slant Magazine The 100 Best Films of the Aughts 86 [39]
Paste The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009) 5 [40]
The A.V. Club The Best Films of the '00s 1 [41]
Metacritic Film Critics Pick the Best Movies of the Decade 2 [45]
2016 BBC The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films 6 [43]
2018 Empire The 100 Greatest Movies 41 [49]
They Shoot Pictures Don't They The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films 5 [50]

Music

Main article: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (soundtrack)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Soundtrack album by
Jon Brion
ReleasedMarch 16, 2004
GenreSoundtrack
Length56:08
LabelHollywood
ProducerKathy Nelson (executive producer)
Tim DeLaughter (track 4)
Jon Brion (track 9)
Don Nelson (tracks 11 and 20)
Ethan Johns (track 18)
Jon Brion chronology
Punch-Drunk Love
(2002) 		Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004) 		I ♥ Huckabees
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[51]
IGN7/10[52]
Filmtracks[53]
Pitchfork7.5/10[54]

The soundtrack album for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was composed by Los Angeles musician Jon Brion, also featuring songs from artists including The Polyphonic Spree, The Willowz, and Don Nelson. The soundtrack was released by Hollywood Records on March 16, 2004.[55] A cover version of The Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" with instrumentation by Brion and vocals by Beck operates as the soundtrack's centerpiece, setting the film's tone in the opening credits, and closing the film.[55][56]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's soundtrack received generally positive reviews. AllMusic described it as "nearly as deft", and described Brion's score as "intimate" and "evocative of love and memories".[57] Other positive reviews noted the ambient nature of the music and lauded Beck's cover of "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime."[58] On the other hand, the soundtrack's detractors criticised the album's lack of identity, and it's depressive atmosphere.[59] Even among the detractors however, the scores ability to mesh with the plot was lauded, an appraisal common to many reviews.[57][58][59][60]

No.TitleArtistLength
1."Theme"Jon Brion2:24
2."Mr. Blue Sky"Electric Light Orchestra5:03
3."Collecting Things"Jon Brion1:13
4."Light & Day"The Polyphonic Spree3:03
5."Bookstore"Jon Brion0:52
6."It's the Sun" (KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic version)The Polyphonic Spree5:33
7."Wada Na Tod, Mera Man Tera Pyasa"Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi5:54
8."Showtime"Jon Brion0:55
9."Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" (The Korgis cover)Beck5:54
10."Sidewalk Flight"Jon Brion0:31
11."Some Kinda Shuffle"Don Nelson2:11
12."Howard Makes It All Go Away"Jon Brion0:14
13."Something"The Willowz2:23
14."Postcard"Jon Brion0:23
15."I Wonder"The Willowz2:56
16."Peer Pressure"Jon Brion1:12
17."A Dream Upon Waking"Jon Brion3:36
18."Strings That Tie to You"Jon Brion2:33
19."Phone Call"Jon Brion1:03
20."Nola's Bounce"Don Nelson1:56
21."Down The Drain"Jon Brion0:56
22."Row"Jon Brion1:00
23."Drive In"Jon Brion2:19
24."Main Title"Jon Brion1:23
25."Spotless Mind"Jon Brion1:12
26."Elephant Parade"Jon Brion0:28
Total length:56:08

Television series

In October 2016, Anonymous Content announced they will be working with Universal Cable Productions to produce a television series based on the film. The project is still in planning stages.[61]

See also

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