Memoria

Ok, here's a gimmik. Allegedly (we won't know until it happens) the distributor of Memoria is only releasing the film to one theatre at a time. So when you watch this movie, you are in the only audience in the country watching. Furthermore, it will not be released to any other format - no streaming, no BluRay, no television.

Now onto the truly weird parts. Let's let the LA Times fill you in: "Tilda Swinton, speaking mostly Spanish, plays a Scottish botanist who finds herself in Bogotá, where her days and nights are disturbed by mysteriously loud, thudding noises that apparently only she and the audience can hear. For a while the movie follows her as she tries to figure out the nature and origin of these sounds, a journey that becomes sadder and stranger, more revealing and more baffling, as she wanders out into the jungle. There, friendly faces, painful secrets and ancient histories lie in wait, as do the sights and sounds of a natural world in richly suggestive bloom. Building to a conclusion that left my jaw on the screening room floor, "Memoria" casts a spell like nothing else I've seen from Cannes this year."