Restoration World Premiere

A heartbroken young man (Jim Carrey) discovers his ex-girlfriend has had her memories of their relationship erased, and he reluctantly undergoes the same procedure in this fantastical yet emotionally grounded romantic comedy-drama. Charlie Kaufman, director Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth won an Oscar for the film’s imaginative original screenplay, which drew inspiration from Alain Resnais’s Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968) and Hiroshima mon amour (1959), both of which deal with themes of memory, forgetting, and loss. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras and production designer Dan Leigh worked closely with Gondry to create the film’s distinctive look that perfectly bridges fantasy and reality.