Memory | Gray areas | La Presse

L’ayant d’abord pris pour un agresseur, une travailleuse Sociale s’éprend d’un man souffrant de démence precoce not elle a la charge.

Social work, 13 years later, Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) meets her daughter Anna (Brooke Timber) in their modest apartment. Tandis, when she accompanied her sister Olivia (Merritt Wever) to an old school reunion, Sylvia left the celebration of the glory of the man, Saul (Peter Sarsgaard, Best Actor Award in Mostra), with respect for perseverance. The main matins, the back of the refrigerator and the bustle in front of the chez elle. Elle apprend d’Isaac (Josh Charles), brother de Saul, que ce dernier souffre de démence précoce.

After dinner, Sylvia insulted Saul when he prenzhal l’un de garçons, who insulted her as a teenager. Olivia confirms to Sylvia that Saul does not attend school often in this era. At the request of Sarah (Elsie Fisher), Isaac’s daughter, Sylvia takes over Saul’s duties for the day. Malgre la Malady, Sylvia begins an affair with Saul, but then Samantha (Jessica Harper), Sylvia and Olivia’s mother, returns and is a threat to everyone.

Three full-length films in English by Mexican director Michel Franco (Chronicle, sunset), Memory meeting on stage with characters plus nature, embodied with the power of nuances par des acteurs au sommet de leur art. Campe in Brooklyn, not the Belgian director Yves Cuyp (SmallGuillaume Nicloux) talks about the aesthetics of the postal card, it is a drama in halftones, a beneficial texture, a realistic force that evokes admiration.

Or Franco a tant et si bien étoffé ses personanages et complexifié le récit principal qu’il en néglige ses trop nombreuses strates. Ainsi, il laisse en plan les supons de Sylvia à propos Saul, comme s’il n’avait plus su quoi en faire en cours d’écriture. Les Retrouvailles entre Sylvia et sa mère, organized against the great premiere of Anne, are not a place of revelations that serve as a path for the development of people evacuated from Australia.

At the same time, the evolution of the relationship between this woman, due to rough souvenirs, and this man, who is gradually born in the brouillard, approaches a rhythm and lethargy that causes disproportionate reactions from the environment. In the end it might be true Memory If you’re having fun, these are undoubted qualities, morning and loud melodrama that dies in the pluses that are repeated along the route.

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