Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are the reason to see this affecting drama.
The plot concerns what happens when Sarsgaard follows Chastain home one evening. She's creeped out and hurries into her apartment figuring that he would leave. Finding him still outside in the morning she calls to have him removed. What follows is an unexpected dance as he is slipping into dementia and she is trying to get over severe trauma that Sarsgaard may have been responsible for.
One of the most unexpected films of 2023, MEMORY is a must see partly because it doesn't do what we expect but mostly because Chastain and Sarsgaard give us complete characters. We are not watching constructs of a writer but two fully formed peopl on the screen, It's a titanic achievement. It's so good that I don't fully remember the plot, I just remember the two people on the screen.
To be honest I think part of the reason I don't remember parts of the plot is that some of it isn't as strong as it should be. Some things that should have been clearer aren't. It's far from fatal, but it keeps the film off my absolute love list.
Highly recommended.
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