Memory

R

Released Dec 22, 2023

1h 40m

Drama

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Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. 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.

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Critics Consensus

A searingly powerful union of filmmaker and cast, Memory finds writer/director Michel Franco exploring complex, mature themes brought brilliantly to life by stars Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Memory is a remarkably humane film that avoids any obvious missteps that would see it collapse into movie-of-the-week social issue melodrama terrain

Jun 18, 2024

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Steph Green

Empire Magazine

Chastain and Sarsgaard are a class act — their touching, tactile chemistry is the film’s triumph.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 18, 2024

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Insinuating and bravely acted, Memory is plotted like a play: there are shades of Florian Zeller’s The Father, albeit with the dementia theme as only one side of the coin here.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 29, 2024

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Jericho Tadeo

MovieWeb

Sarsgaard bares body and soul as Saul, presenting to us a broken man without ever once demanding pity.

Jul 12, 2024

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John Serba

Decider

Memory is weighty and intense and therefore not an easy watch, but its thematic richness and fully committed performances render it a more-than-worthy adult drama.

Jul 8, 2024

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Elsa Fernández-Santos

El Pais (Spain)

Memory is a melodrama that dresses pain with too many layers of misery, an excess of traumas that Franco confronts with a beautiful yet dark love story sustained by Jessica Chastain and, especially Peter Sarsgaard. [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 21, 2024

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Marcianne W

This was definitely not a mainstream movie and I say that in a complimentary way. Wonderful performances by the entire cast. A very sad but touching story. Beaitiful in many ways.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/24

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Deb Ealden

Its an engaging and heartwarming story. Excellent acting from all the actors.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/24

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Gerald W

Great acting! Slow, but profound.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/24

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Carole H

Well acted. Interesting presentation of problems with alzheiimers.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/24

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dianne c

Great cast weak script very slow

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/15/24

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Anne M

Great acting, interesting story but it kept shifting gears so I wasn't sure where it was trying to go. Ultimately, worth while.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Synopsis

Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. 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
Producer: Michel Franco, Duncan Montgomery, Eréndira Núñez Larios, Alex Orlovsky
Screenwriter: Michel Franco
Distributor: Ketchup Entertainment
Production Co: The Match Factory, MUBI, High Frequency Entertainment, Case Study Films, Teorema Films, Screen 1
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Graphic Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 22, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 20, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $378.7K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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