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After a bad break-up, Joel (Jim Carrey) finds out his ex, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has paid a clinic called Lacuna to wipe him from her memory. So he books the same procedure. Most of the film unfolds inside Joel’s head that night as technicians erase her memory by memory, and halfway through he realizes he wants to keep her - spending the rest of the night trying to hide her in corners of his mind where she doesn’t belong. Charlie Kaufman’s script won the Oscar for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004), and Michel Gondry shot most of the dream logic in-camera, with collapsing houses, vanishing faces and a beach house sinking into the sea. Carrey plays it completely straight, which is exactly why it hurts, and Winslet earned an Oscar nomination as Clementine. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood round out the clinic staff, having a messy night of their own. If you’ve ever wished you could forget someone, this is the film. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that watching it means falling in love with what love really is, while Lou Lumenick of the New York Post called it audacious, thought-provoking and ruefully funny. Wednesday, November 18 | 8:00PM TicTic, Phnom Penh Free entry & popcorn - arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating