A tightly wound drama sees excellent performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard as a pair of flawed and damaged lovers. Sylvia is a recovering alcoholic who leads a simple, ordered life: her teenage daughter, her job as a social worker, AA meetings. After a school reunion, she is followed home by a man whose presence has unsettled her. Memory is the key: the man, Saul, is bewildered, experiencing a rare form of dementia, while Sylvia dredges long-suppressed secrets, not to mention her formidable mother, from out of her past. Can they connect against all the odds?
MEMORY (15)
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Director: Michel Franco
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Jessica Harper
Mexico/US, 2024, 1 hour 43 minutes, English
“.. about abuse, violence, recovery and the redemptive power of sexual intimacy, but also about just what its title proclaims: memory, and how this accumulates over a lifetime to form an identity.” 4* Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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