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A sensory experience is what it proposes Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Memorythe film for which tilda swinton not only did he immediately enter the scene, but he also decided to produce.
Sometimes waking up to a noise can be annoying. But if it stops, and it was only a success, it’s forgotten.
That’s not what happens to Jessica (Tilda Swinton), the main character. She’s fine, she’s in a bed that’s not hers, and in Bogotá, where she traveled from Medellín to be with her sister, he’s hospitalized. It’s not a rumble, not a click, not a buzz or crackle.
Tilda Swinton shot Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film in Colombia. Photo Zeta Films
But the sound, that sound, haunts her. She listens to him at different times and in different places. Nobody else hears it. Just her.
Even the characters that accompany Jessica throughout the film have their particularities, some more related to the title of the film, Memory. Like the sister, who after the accident for which she is hospitalized does not remember many things and seems forgetful, or the anthropologist who in a somewhat casual and incredible way knows the protagonist, and is obsessed with the search for new remains – what is it if not memory and recollection, based on the need to reconstruct the past.
A cinema of sensations is the one proposed by the winner of the Palme d’Or.
And there’s also Hernán, the sound engineer Jessica goes to to try to find out what that noise is, or what it looks like, and who mysteriously disappears at a given moment.
Mystery
The film could also have been titled Mystery.
Tilda Swinton has not only agreed to act, but is listed as the film’s producer.
but it is titled Memoryand it is the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. A competition that discovered the Thai director to the general public, when Tim Burton as president of the jury, he awarded him the Palme d’Or The man who could remember his past lives (Uncle Boom)In 2010.
As in the man who could…, The director is interested in phenomenological images and raises more problems, questions, than giving answers. The way of shooting, with long shots, few editing cuts, making an internal logic prevail even in the shot. Apichatpong is a “timer”, as anyone who has seen one of his feature films or shorts knows.
The Thai director is interested in phenomenological images and raises more problems, questions, than giving answers.
Filmed in Colombia, at one point another noise makes the city tremble. It’s not what Jessica hears over and over, it looks like the product of a shot, when in reality it’s the exhaust of a vehicle, but a man senses the worst and throws himself to the ground. The scene takes on a particular significance for the place where it was shot, for the daily reality of the South American country.
This is one of the few, few contacts that Apichatpong has with “reality”. Because the thing about him is the sensations, the impressions. sensory experiences.
Jessica (Tilda Swinton) with the anthropologist obsessed with finding new remains.
And, as such, the plot – which the film has it – matters less than what the viewer perceives.
The film will premiere on Thursday in theaters in Argentina and will only be available on MUBI on August 5th.
“Memory”
Good
Drama. Colombia, Thailand, France, 2021. 136 ‘, SAM 13. Of: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. With: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho. Rooms: Lorca, Cabildo Multiplex, MALBA.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
