Ever since his Palme d’Or victory with “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” in 2010, Thai filmmaker Apichatapong Weerasethakul is somewhat of a star player in Cannes Film Festival line-up. With his foreign-language debut “Memoria”, he has achieved success, Jury Prize, at this year’s edition of the festival.
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It is a bit corny to start a film review with William Faukner’s quote about the nature of the past, how it is not dead and maybe not even past, but here it can serve as nice introduction. The same kind of thinking, but with some of the theoretical scientific proof could be told for the nature of the sound. It does not die out, it just infinitely tones down to fall out of the limits of our perception. If we use some deductive thinking on this subject, we can realize that every...
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It is a bit corny to start a film review with William Faukner’s quote about the nature of the past, how it is not dead and maybe not even past, but here it can serve as nice introduction. The same kind of thinking, but with some of the theoretical scientific proof could be told for the nature of the sound. It does not die out, it just infinitely tones down to fall out of the limits of our perception. If we use some deductive thinking on this subject, we can realize that every...
- 6/29/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
"In here, time stops." It has begun! Neon has revealed a teaser for Memoria, the latest film from acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, best known for Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Mekong Hotel, and many others. This premiered to rave reviews at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance. The director explains his idea: "While researching, I often heard a loud noise at dawn. I imagine the mountains [in Colombia] as an expression of people's remembrances through centuries. The massive sierras, with their creases and creeks, are like the folds of the brain, or the curves of sound waves." Tilda Swinton stars with a cast including Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and Agnes Brekke. Neon announced that instead of releasing this on DVD, they...
- 3/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ever since his Palme d’Or victory with “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” in 2010, Thai filmmaker Apichatapong Weerasethakul is somewhat of a star player in Cannes Film Festival line-up. With his foreign-language debut “Memoria”, he has achieved success, Jury Prize, at this year’s edition of the festival. We were lucky to catch it at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it played in the Horizons programme segment.
It is a bit corny to start a film review with William Faukner’s quote about the nature of the past, how it is not dead and maybe not even past, but here it can serve as nice introduction. The same kind of thinking, but with some of the theoretical scientific proof could be told for the nature of the sound. It does not die out, it just infinitely tones down to fall out of the limits of our perception.
It is a bit corny to start a film review with William Faukner’s quote about the nature of the past, how it is not dead and maybe not even past, but here it can serve as nice introduction. The same kind of thinking, but with some of the theoretical scientific proof could be told for the nature of the sound. It does not die out, it just infinitely tones down to fall out of the limits of our perception.
- 9/1/2021
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
“Memoria” translates simply to “memory” in Spanish. The four syllables were also truly promising some resumption of a post-pandemic high-end cinema for us obsessives across the globe. Unlike, perhaps, Carax and Verhoeven of that delayed-from-2020 crop, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has vaulted (or floated) over expectations with a work of brilliance.
The vaunted partnership between Tilda Swinton and the Thai master has been fermenting for many years—Cemetery of Splendour was indeed slated to be their first feature-film collaboration. But here, as has been widely noted in pre-release reporting, Apichatpong is in ostensibly unfamiliar territory: Colombia, on the northern coast of South America—a land marked by beauty, ongoing civil strife, and a charged, challenged relationship to its own history. Not far from his Thailand, we might say.
Memoria was developed over many years, the filmmaker visiting Colombia as a civilian, talking to one and all in countryside and city, bourgeois and proletarian alike.
The vaunted partnership between Tilda Swinton and the Thai master has been fermenting for many years—Cemetery of Splendour was indeed slated to be their first feature-film collaboration. But here, as has been widely noted in pre-release reporting, Apichatpong is in ostensibly unfamiliar territory: Colombia, on the northern coast of South America—a land marked by beauty, ongoing civil strife, and a charged, challenged relationship to its own history. Not far from his Thailand, we might say.
Memoria was developed over many years, the filmmaker visiting Colombia as a civilian, talking to one and all in countryside and city, bourgeois and proletarian alike.
- 7/17/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
“Memoria” begins with the first jump scare in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s career, but the sudden impact isn’t as relevant as the way it resonates in the silence that follows. Anyone familiar with the slow-burn lyricism at the center of the Thai director’s work knows how he adheres to a dreamlike logic that takes its time to settle in. The Colombia-set “Memoria,” his first movie made outside his native country, does that as well as anything in “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” or “Cemetery of Splendor.” But this time around, there’s a profound existential anxiety creeping in.
With Tilda Swinton’s puzzled gaze as its guide, “Memoria” amounts to a haunting, introspective look at one woman’s attempts to uncover the roots of a mysterious sound that only she can hear. More than that, it’s a masterful and engrossing response to rush of modern...
With Tilda Swinton’s puzzled gaze as its guide, “Memoria” amounts to a haunting, introspective look at one woman’s attempts to uncover the roots of a mysterious sound that only she can hear. More than that, it’s a masterful and engrossing response to rush of modern...
- 7/15/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"It's like a rumble from the core of the Earth." Neon has unveiled the first official trailer for the mysterious new drama Memoria, the latest film from acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, best known for his films Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Mekong Hotel among many, many other creative projects. This is premiering in the main competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival this week, and Neon already has plans to release it soon. A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance. That's about all we know. Tilda Swinton stars with a cast including Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and Agnes Brekke. The director explains his idea for this: "While researching, I often heard a loud noise at dawn. It was internal and has occurred in many of the places I visited.
- 7/12/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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