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THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Sunday, May 20 Bagel Brunch at 10am Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with Fred Craden
$9 Members $14 Public
Join Sunday Schmooze host Fred Craden for an exploration of Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's brilliant film, a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with confident skill
Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be
recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich,
Synecdoche, New York, Adaptation) has made him a unique and muchneeded cinematic presence. In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own memory--but midway through the procedure, he changes his mind and struggles to hang on to their experiences together. In other hands, the premise of memory-erasing would become a trashy science-fiction thriller; Kaufman, along with director Michel Gondry, spins this idea into a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with confident skill. The entire castJim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and moregive superb performances, carefully pitched so that cleverness never trumps feeling. A great movie. -Bret Fetzer (USA, 2004, 108 min., color, 35mm)
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LocationCinema Arts Centre (View)
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
United States
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