From the extraordinary mind of Palme D'or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.... (Full plot summary below)
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From the extraordinary mind of Palme D'or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
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| Original-CinLiam LaceyWeeraskathul also explores how identities emerge, dissolve, and connect but he steps onto that shifting ground of memory and experience through a poetic, reverent portal. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Chandler LevackIt’s a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that’s purely Apichatpong. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangIf Memoria is a gorgeous reassertion of form, it is also a bold excursion into new territory. |
| The Film StageDavid KatzTo be as suggestive, yet covert as possible, the great innovation of this film is the notion of how sounds can be memories—all too often in the popular imagination, we think of them as mini-movies of the mind, or visual spots of time as in The Tree of Life or the Romantic poet Wordsworth’s concept. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawIn a calmly realist, non-mystic movie language, this director really can convince you that the living and the dead, the past and the present, the terrestrial and the other, do exist side by side. |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownAgain in a Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, we find spirits lurking behind the everyday world, but in Memoria, they might just be repressed memories emanating from a world that never actually forgets. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMemoria is a sensory experience, but it takes a performer like Swinton to amplify Joe’s technique. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottEvery scene unfolds with quiet, meticulous clarity, but Weerasethakul’s luminous precision only deepens the mystery. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s something uniquely intense about hearing an entire audience remain utterly still during a movie’s transporting final minutes, afraid to cough or squeak their seat’s rusty springs or even breathe too loud, for fear of breaking the spell. Memoria inspires that kind of rapture. Experience its full dynamic range. |
| The Irish TimesTara BradySound designer Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr’s compositions are as dramatically impactful as Tilda Swinton’s performance is delicately minimalist. Her carefully calibrated movements sit beautifully within the director’s enigmatic images and hypnotic pacing. |
