Memory (2023)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 103 minuten
Country:
United States / Mexico / Chili / Germany
Directed by: Michel Franco
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard and Elsie Fisher
IMDb score:
6,7 (10.543)
Releasedate: 22 December 2023
Memory plot
Silvia takes care of adults who suffer from mental problems. She leads a simple life that she divides between her daughter, her work and her AA meetings. After visiting a school reunion, Saul, whom she knows from that same school period, is on her doorstep the next morning. Their reunion has a major impact on both their lives.
Actors and actresses
Sylvia
Saul
Olivia
Isaac
Sara
Samantha
Ashley
Male Nurse
Security Guard
Refrigerator Repair Man
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Films that use Procul Harum's music as a leitmotif always have a certain favor with me. This also applies to this romantic drama with heavy themes such as sexual abuse and dementia. An excellent movie.
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mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
Social worker Sylvia [Jessica Chastain] uses her experience as an alcoholic to help others, but also has little social life. After much hesitation, she decides to attend her high school reunion. There she comes into contact with Saul [Peter Sarsgaard], who has been diagnosed with dementia. Sylvia first accuses Saul of sexually abusing her at the time, but she soon retracts that accusation. Yet a friendship develops between these two troubled people, both of whom struggle with their memories. Sylvia about her traumatic past, Saul about how his memory is crumbling. Gloomy psychological drama intriguingly exposes how selective memory can be. The scene in which Sylvia confronts her sister [Merritt Weaver] and mother [Jessica Harper] with a shocking event from her childhood is especially impressive.
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De filosoof
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- 2544 messages
- 1743 votes
I thought the trailer hinted at a sedate love story, but the reviews were good, so I went into it with moderate expectations: unfortunately the film turned out to be far below my expectations. I can see little more in it than a cheap 'doctor's novel' (as I imagine it: I have never read one) in whatever genre it is fornication (sex with an incompetent or subordinate such as in the doctor-nurse or physician relationship). -patient) has in common which criminal law aspect is completely ignored in favor of romance: in this case a person in need of care and his babysitter fall in love with each other (at most the reversal of the gender role is special compared to the doctor's novel ). After all, the person in need of care has dementia, so his short-term memory would falter, although you don't notice anything in terms of the relationship because he remembers every detail regarding his new relationship. The complexity is that the woman (his babysitter) is also 'disabled' in the sense that she has been sexually abused, causing both people's families to believe that sexual abuse has occurred and lie for it(which there is drama in the love story).
The moral message of the film is that physical forgetfulness is not as bad as moral forgetfulness because in the latter one does not dare to face the truth against one's better judgment, as in the case of sexual abuse in the family as the mother denies what happened. I don't know if doctor novels can also have that depth, but the film doesn't get much better: it remains a moralizing, dull piece about sexual abuse without an interesting plot or content.
P.S. According to Ab Zagt, who discusses a film every Thursday on NPO4, it is the best film of the summer, which once again confirms that our film taste is practically opposite.
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