Memory

Directed by: Michel Franco
USA, Mexico, Chile, 2023, 100'

Cankarjev dom Cinema Memory

Screenplay: Michel Franco
Cinematography: Yves Cape
Cast: Jessica Chastain (Sylvia), Peter Sarsgaard (Saul), Brooke Timber (Anna), Merritt Wever (Olivia), Elsie Fisher (Sara), Jessica Chastain (Sylvia), Peter Sarsgaard (Saul), Brooke Timber (Anna), Merritt Wever (Olivia), Elsie Fisher (Sara), Jessica Harper (Samantha), Josh Charles (Isaac), Blake Baumgartner (Ashley), Lexie Braverman (Rebecca), Ross Brodar (popravljalec hladilnikov), Jackson Dorfmann (Mark), Alexis Rae Forlenza (Lucy), Elizabeth Loyacano (Megan)
Producent: Teorema (Mexico) & High Frequency Entertainment & Screen Capital & MUBI & Case Study Films
Subtitles: Slovenian
Language: English

Emotions run high in this love story between a bruised woman and a man suffering from an insidious disease.

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past. Saul, as we eventually learn, has a form of dementia that alternates between total mental clarity and blackouts that leave him lost. Sylvia forms a patchy connection with him after their creepy first encounter, and it turns to love.

I wanted to make a film about people who for whatever reason fall through the cracks of society. Their inability - or unwillingness - to conform to expectations is often rooted in events that only exist in their memories. But sometimes their very marginalisation offers an escape from the shadows of the past, a chance to build a life in the present. Memory is about whether one can truly escape those shadows.
Michel Franco