NOTE: All screenings of Memoria will be preceded by a 10-minute silent pre-show following the trailers to bring audiences into the proper mindset for the film.
Tilda Swinton in
Apichatpong
Weerasethakul’s
MEMORIA
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.
Collective and personal
ghosts hover over every frame of Memoria, somehow the grandest yet most
becalmed of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s works. Inspired by the Thai director’s
own memories and those of people he encountered while traveling across
Colombia, the film follows Jessica (a wholly immersed Tilda Swinton), an expat
botanist visiting her hospitalized sister in Bogotá; while there, she becomes
ever more disturbed by an abyssal sound that haunts her sleepless nights and
bleary-eyed days, compelling her to seek help in identifying its origins. Thus
begins a personal journey that’s also historical excavation, in a film of profound
serenity that, like Jessica’s sound, lodges itself in the viewer’s brain as it
traverses city and country, climaxing in an extraordinary extended encounter
with a rural farmer that exists on a precipice between life and death. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes
Film Festival. (2021, 136 minutes, Color, DCP, Colombia/Thailand/UK, English
and Spanish with English subtitles)