Memoria

Film details

Film TitleMemoria
Suitability
Genre
Length136mins
Year2021
CountryColombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, United Kingdom, China, Switzerland
DirectorApichatpong Weerasethakul
ActorsTilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
Showings

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hUzZelGxk

It’s an exercise in mindfulness that asks you to give yourself over to it lock, stock and barrel. If you’re willing to do that, you can cancel that meditation course.

Watching this film reminded me of when I was 17, hearing Revolution 9 on The White Album for the first time. It left a residue of happiness in my heart.

Time melts beyond its tangible limits when watching Memoria, resulting in an audiovisual trance disorienting in its peculiar placidity.

In his own precise, abstract manner, Apichatpong has made an ecological disaster movie about the danger involved in ignoring the natural state of things and the people who respect it.