Memory

Name: Memory
Genre: Drama
Released: December 22, 2023
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Alexis Rae Forlenza, Blake Baumgartner, Davis Duffield, Elsie Fisher, Jackson Dorfmann

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Ketchup Entertainment | Release Date: December 22, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexis Rae Forlenza, Blake Baumgartner, Davis Duffield, Elsie Fisher, Jackson Dorfmann, Jessica Chastain, Josh Charles, Lexie Braverman, Rand Faris, Ross Brodar

Summary: Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) 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.

Director: Michel Franco

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Peter Debruge

Sep 9, 2023

Memory invites debate, rather than imposing a specific interpretation. It’s also a film that lingers, shifting and expanding in significance, even as the details start to blur. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

Sep 15, 2023

Chastain and Sarsgaard––ably supported by Josh Charles, Jessica Harper, and Elsie Fisher across the ensemble––are just fantastic, and find an ideal emotional register for Franco’s dramatic somersaults. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 5, 2024

The direct, intimate way in which the movie is filmed and acted, however, makes it an affecting study of two people’s attempts to forge some kind of relationship despite huge psychic damage on both sides. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Ellen E Jones

Feb 25, 2024

Gradually and delicately, Sylvia and Saul’s tessellating traumas are revealed by a beautifully balanced pair of lead performances. Read full review

Peter Travers

Jan 5, 2024

Fueled by performances worth treasuring from Chastain and Sarsgaard, this impossible love story between a woman who can't forget and man who can't remember slowly works its way into your mind and heart. Filmmaker Michel Franco makes sure you’ll be moved to tears. Read full review

Screen Rant Alex Harrison

Sep 29, 2023

A lot happens, story-wise, but if the film had just followed Sylvia and Saul learning how to be around each other, it would've been enough. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jan 4, 2024

Chastain reliably holds the screen even if her performance often feels overly studied rather than lived in, never more so than in her scenes with Sarsgaard, whose delicate, quicksilver expressiveness appreciably deepens both the movie and its stakes. You don’t always believe in Sylvia and Saul as a couple, but Sarsgaard makes you want to. Read full review

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