Memoria (2021)
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Duration: 136 minuten
Country:
Colombia / Thailand / France / Germany / Mexico / Qatar / United Kingdom / China / Switzerland
Directed by: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz and Jeanne Balibar
IMDb score:
6,4 (12.702)
Releasedate: 30 September 2021
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Memoria plot
"In here, time stops."
A female farmer visits her sick sister in Bogota. There she befriends a French archaeologist who oversees a construction project and meets a young musician. At night her sleep is mysteriously disturbed by loud bangs.
Actors and actresses
Jessica Holland
Karen Holland
Juan Ospina
Mateo Ospina
Young Hernán Bedoya
Agnes Cerkinsky
Vendor
Doctor Constanza
Older Hernán Bedoya
Anthropologist Assistant (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
Collins
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- 7353 messages
- 4350 votes
Tilda Swinton is searching. In Bogota, Colombia, she tries to find the source of the dramatic roar that plagues her ears. She wanders through enigmatic spaces in urban and rural areas. Spaces where past and present, life and death meet. Memoria by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a mysterious and contemplative film
The film proceeds with a meditative slowness. Undistracted by a dramatic score that accentuates the highs and lows, the pleasantly gliding rhythm is sometimes rudely interrupted by a noisy metallic bang that produces an effect similar to a jumpscare in a horror film. The sound awakens something in Swinton that has been simmering for years. Memories are released. Ghosts of the past float above carefully composed images. A disturbing atmosphere is perceptible without being tangible.
Memoria navigates between the rational and the inexplicable. A few scenes show an excavation in a tunnel and the discovery of a pile of bones. The bones are affected by the ravages of time and not completely. They are fragments. The stories they tell are imperfect. Their history remains partly hidden. Maybe forever. Memoria is a film made up of fragments that have to be carefully glued together and even then create an imperfect picture.
Towards the end, in the middle of the silence of nature, we observe an encounter between two people. An encounter that gives scattered information and vague feelings some form. In between a death of 5 minutes. How was it?, asks Swinton. It was “fine”, reports the other. Apparently nothing is eternal. Nothing is without promise.
I have traveled pleasantly.
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De filosoof
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- 2490 messages
- 1702 votes
My first encounter with Weerasethakul was the film Rak Ti Khon Kaen (2015) that made a big impression on me: the slow pace and a a certain mystical charge brought me into a kind of meditative state in which dreams and wakings became intertwined, just like with the people in the film. This film is also extremely slow – perhaps even slower – and so again the themes of sleeping and dreaming, death and life, illness/madness and past/memory are of crossing the natural boundaries between this side and the other (and in this film also removes the boundaries between individuals), but I hardly got into a meditative mood: I experienced the film mainly as slow and boring, in which I tried to connect the different situations shown into a coherent story. The film felt more like an experimental film to me than a meditative one, which experiment didn't work for me. In the end, it was little more than a separate film about a special kind of tinnitus to me, which mystery drove the film but failed to get a satisfactory solution: the UFOI even found a bit ridiculous.
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Arnie
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- 1082 messages
- 1885 votes
What Collins says. A wonderful meditative trip. Sober and gray, very slow, and therefore not necessarily easy to digest. Certainly in the first part, scenes were not always interesting, and I think there is also a bit less to see visually than in previous films by Weerasethakul. But especially from Jessica's visit to Hernán (2) it is deafeningly beautiful, contemplative, Tarkovsky-style. Weerasethakul also seems to be finding its feet in South America. Now a little more swing.
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