I can't believe it. Charlie Kaufman actually made a date film. After the fiasco that was Adaptation (yes, my own opinion, not necessarily others), I was wary of watching another of his scripts. Well, this one is, um, spotless. The film has impeccable acting, direction, special effects and editing. I'll start with the latter. The film jumps around quite a bit in its timeline (a la Memento or 21 Grams), but it has some of the tightest editing I've seen. Not at all difficult to figure out when you are, which is also a testament to the direction (amusing as both Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet have stated that they never understood a word the director was telling them). Carrey and Winslet do some of their best, if not absolutely their best, acting ever. And unbelievably, Winslet gets to do the crazy stuff while Carrey plays it serious. I'm not going to say anything about the special effects, because it would give far too much away. In fact, I'm not sure I want to say anything about the plot for the same reason. You should go into the film knowing almost nothing about it (that's probably a good idea with all Kaufman scripts), but you definitely, absolutely should see it. With a loved one, if at all possible.
year: 2004
length: 108 min.
rating: 4.0
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/combined
Sunday, March 21, 2004
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