M.EMORY
Genre: Mystical-visual-sound experience
Direction: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. With Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Tilda Swinton in the film “Memoria” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (photo by Sandro Kopp).
Where does that strange and indefinable sound come from that only Jessica, an American who came to Bogota to visit her sick sister, seems to hear? But most of all: what is this strange film that seems to want to escape the desire for explanation who snaps into the audience surprising him at every scene?
For the first time away from his Thailand and for the first time with Western interpreters led by the enigmatic Tilda Swinton, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul asks the viewer to rely completely on him and follow him on a journey where sensations matter more than rationality.
Tilda Swinton in the film “Memoria” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (photo by Sandro Kopp).
Just like Jessica does, who first tries to use the tools of science to solve the mystery of that sound that haunts her and then agrees to let herself be guided in a world that is the polar opposite of hers, starting a journey that takes her away from the city, among stones with memories and men who accumulate memories, while the border that divides life from death is distorted.
Because the director wants to dismantle the certainties of the “whites” and claim the role of mysticism, of magic and esotericism, that is, of a universe where not everything can be explained. As the last image will tell us, mysterious and surprising like the whole film.
For those who want to indulge in an out-of-the-ordinary (cinematic) experience.
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