MEMORY

Feature Film

Michel Franco |

USA, Mexico |

2023 |

100Min |

English

16 L N S SV

Synopsis

Sylvia is a social worker and single mother who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her thirteen-year sobriety, and her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter profoundly impacts both of them as they open the door to the past. Their contradictory recall of their school days presents a challenge as their relationship stumbles over their memories. Saul’s condition affects his memory of the past but is the distant past closer than the immediate past, and what of the present?

Director

Michel Franco

Producer

Eréndira Núñez Larios, Michel Franco, Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky

Cinematographer

Yves Cape

Screenplay

Michel Franco

Principal Cast

Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Jessica Harper, Elsie Fisher, Brooke Timber, Josh Charles

Screenings

20 July 19:30 Pavilion 12

27 July 14:30 Suncoast 8

Michel Franco

Michel Franco was born in 1979 in Mexico City and has helped put Mexican cinema in the global spotlight. The films he has written, directed, and produced include New Order (Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 2020) Chronic (Best Screenplay Award, Cannes Film Festival 2015), April’s Daughters (Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2017), and After Lucia (Top Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2012). Among the films he has produced are 600 Millas (directed by Gabriel Ripstein, Best First Feature Award, Berlinale 2015) and From Afar (directed by Lorenzo Vigas, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2015). His most recent film, Sundown, a drama starring Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg, premiered in Venice in 2021. Memory premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in September 2023.