“Memento” by Michel Franco, a film filled with love for memory and resilience – rts.ch

Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) leads a simple life, structured by her children, with a job as a social assistant and AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings. In the evening, after the celebration of the ancient graduates of the Lyceum, Sylvia est suivie par un homme, Saul (Peter Sarsgaard), a frappe of amnesia due to death. Sylvia, who knows how great the impression is that Auraite is good and does not remember the traumas that devastated her son, daughter and existence, is Saul’s abuser.

“Memory” by the Mexican realizer Michel Franco, already known as “After Lucia” or “Chronicle”, is a double feature, delicate and poignant in the pangs of memory, like the Indica title. La mémoire de cet homme malheureux de l’avoir avoir, et de cette femme malheureux de l’avoir encore.

The avant-garde premiere of the Venice Bridge in 2023 by Peter Sarsgaard is a report on the Coupe Volpi de la meilleure in a masculine interpretation, this film contains a commentary confirming the connection between the resilience of the commune between these two êtres.

Simple beauty

Accustomed to hard work, cold and distance between characters, rich misanthropes, sad voices, Michel Franco went to “Memory” with the film “Simple Sympathy” and “soul” in a style that he knows for a few more minutes.

“Since they are the main long-term footage of America, I can make an impression that will change and less and less respect, ce qui fait du bien. Tons,” Sulin Raphael Wolf, criticized RTS cinema in the Vertigo cinema debate on May 29.

Simple scenes of beauty, épurées et évitant le Pathos, source of “Memories” of the film that caused the surprise of Raphaël Wolf’s selon, Embrasse néanmoins parfaitement son sujet.

Lara Donnet

Memento by Michel Franco with Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. View romantic numbers after May 29, 2024.