Memoria
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Memoria

2021
Drama, Sci-fi
2h 16m
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Rated 23 Jan 2022
6
35th
As much as I liked Joe's previous 2 films, not only does Memoria retread the same territory, I felt it didn't lend itself to meaningful scrutiny, let alone a cathartic resolution. The sound editing also becomes gimmicky after a while rather than coherently integrated within the story and the ending is about as jarring and contrived as a Deus Ex-Machina gets. Eventually, I will also stop tolerating filmmakers who lazily set up static shots on a tripod and call themselves filmmakers...
Rated 15 Feb 2022
28
25th
You lost me with the fucking spaceship, Joe. The goofiest type of metaphysical arthouse obfuscation.
Rated 07 Aug 2022
65
71st
A remake of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS where ghosts or deliriums that seem to arise obliquely from the past, and from a very very old past, keep the protagonist (and not only her) tensed, expectant, awaiting something wholly unexpected, and even awaiting only that, yet without being aware of what (or even that) she is expecting. In short, maybe there really is something quite specific going on here, though, as always with this filmmaker, critics and reviewers don't really manage to identify what it is.
Rated 04 Feb 2022
20
2nd
If it was just a book of screenshots it would probably be decent. But as a movie? Scenes are too long and static. For as good looking at the shots are, they aren't worth staring at for this long. There was no intrigue or engaging characterization. The plot could have been interesting but then you stare at a scene of two people editing sound effects for what feels like half your life. Just lacks the inventiveness that makes Joe's best work so amazing. Edit this down A LOT and then we'll talk.
Rated 14 Sep 2021
90
93rd
TIFF 2021: A meditative journey towards the absolute pushed forward by ghostly signals and the technology of nature. Feel like the first 3/4 of this is probably Apichatpong's best and most masterful work. The end is familiar ground for him but the imprint is still undeniable.
Rated 11 Jul 2022
72
78th
Joe has a couple themes he runs: the substanceless of the echoes, dreams, memories which we hear, live through and we think comprise us. Going deeper and deeper into the vortex of samsara, a barrier of frustration emanates from the need for a narratological coherence, unity, though the dream can never provide it. The ending is doubtful or questionable.
Rated 11 Apr 2022
67
29th
More of Joe's ASMR explorations, but this time devilishly peppered with audio jump scares. I tried to get invested into the film's "vibe", and the sound editing scene helped, but it ultimately prefers dream-like hmm-ness than any hint of actual clarification. I appreciate the audacity of the conclusion, but struggle with wondering what the point is to all this cinematic broccoli.
Rated 03 Mar 2024
48
36th
Tilda Swinton imagines hearing a sound. Then nothing happens for ten minutes. Then she tries to figure out what that sound was. Then nothing happens for another fifteen minutes. Then she hears it again and asks someone else. And again nothing happens for ten minutes, and so forth. Most of the time you're watching nothing happening. Eventually, something happens, but it's pretty lame really. I give it points for audacity, but having watched the director's stuff before, it isn't even that novel.
Rated 16 Sep 2023
48
49th
worth a watch
Rated 25 Feb 2023
58
19th
Coolsoundengineer+guysaysshesreadinghismemories+spaceshiplol+onesaiditsaboutlikeawakeningtoancientmemoriesandshitandshemetsoulmatesthathelped
Rated 14 May 2022
70
26th
Sounds and looks interesting, but it didn't really click for me.
Rated 23 Jan 2022
30
18th
This director SUCKS. He has no sense of timing, his pacing is ridiculously. He just leaves the camera sitting on scenes for a stupidly long time. he must be completely FULL OF HIMSELF. You could easily edit out 75% and not lose a single scene. The script and plot is pure garbage. It was not worth watching and frequently infuriating. If it hadn't been for Tilda Swinton I would have walked out many times. It is boring, stupid and pointless. Avoid this at all costs.
Rated 17 Oct 2021
80
54th
God dammit Joe your movies make me feel so dumb there are several amazing scenes and moments but I feel like it doesn’t completely cohere for me and a lot of it does end up being the bad kind of slow and then I see these lyrical reviews about it and I can ALMOST grasp it but feel like I’m still missing that one key piece anyway this movie is good I guess I liked when that guy had a nap
Rated 20 Oct 2021
90
80th
Viewed October 6, 2021. There's a brilliant sequence where Tilda Swinton's character works with an audio engineer to try and isolate a sound she hears only in her head. Weerasethakul paces the scene around the steady progression of the engineer's looping sound program, a methodical rhythm that captures all of the unease and excitement that Swinton is feeling in that moment. That sequence alone is miraculous, and there are other moments in Memoria that come close.
Rated 24 Oct 2021
90
94th
go to see film -> come out but everything is new
Rated 31 Dec 2021
93
92nd
Não é sempre que me conecto com o Weerasethakul, mas quando isso acontece é avassalador. Memória é um desses momentos, um estranho resplandecer entre a metafísica e a ficção científica, me fez lembrar em certo sentido o melhor de Tarkovski, mas tem escrito Weerasethakul por todo ele. Queria muito ter visto no cinema, mas na província não passa esse tipo de filme. WEBRip no MakingOff.
Rated 30 Jan 2022
65
73rd
Interesting.
Rated 12 Mar 2022
5
45th
it tries to be clever but it really isn't
Rated 20 Apr 2022
93
80th
Saw this on a 35 mm print at Siskel Center. I'll admit I dosed off a little bit when the second Hernan was dying and reviving. This director kills it every time though. Worth a rewatch.
Rated 02 May 2022
72
60th
I will confess I wasn't riveted minute-to-minute, but man this has some really transcendent moments in it. And I do love that this has to be seen in a theater (at least for now; I can't imagine this won't eventually get a physical release); not only because this film's slow pace, still camerawork, and long takes would be less absorbing at home, but because the sound work in this film is flabbergasting and that would have absolutely been lost on me had I not seen this on the big screen.
Rated 14 May 2022
70
58th
somehow inspired by Halo 3
Rated 21 May 2022
76
75th
Extremely artsy outlook. Catchy premise and the character of Elkin was the most interesting.
Rated 12 Jun 2022
46
6th
Indulges in too many arthouse cliches, but the scene where they try to recreate the sound is good.
Rated 09 Aug 2022
74
43rd
Slow, meditative and enigmatic. Glad I watched this in a cinema, don't know if I would have had the discipline at home.
Rated 10 Sep 2022
68
33rd
The final 20ish minutes reveal it to be, in my opinion, experimentation for the sake of it. Reminds me of Post Tenebras Lux in a weird way (which I was also not a fan of).
Rated 12 Sep 2022
63
56th
Bizarre Nettlesome Relaxing Film!!! wich is expected!!!
Rated 11 Oct 2022
40
9th
A film with a simple grammar at the service of a story that is difficult to decipher. At least, until the final sequence. I liked the hypnotic way in which the film lets you enter its atmosphere, but in the end it is like entering a beautiful empty house, with poorly connected rooms and a single piece of furniture that is perplexing.
Rated 22 Nov 2022
80
85th
Such a strange, eerie, mysterious meditation on time, movement and death you can't quite grasp until the very last shot -- actually, not even after that, 'cause you are left wandering just like Tilda's character. Joe goest west and does his own sci-fi version of Blow Out -- sort of.
Rated 04 Mar 2023
45
21st
45 is because of photography and sound, otherwise the score would have been lower (pun intended). This is one of those movies that I feel people are giving great score because it's essentially an art movie and they want to look clever. Art, by the way, should be a genre here at Criticker. A genre that would work as a warning. The movie is slow. Maybe if I knew, I would have watched it with different eyes. Today I wanted entertainment, so bleah.
Rated 29 Sep 2023
6
40th
Very strained indie trappings, and some very beautiful details. No, Weerasethekul didn't fall asleep while directing it.
Rated 04 Oct 2023
50
13th
Was it the infamous Swinton-effect...? From the moment she lifts herself up from the bed in the openingscene I couldn't stand her movements and her slow gestures. Weirdly enough I hold her in high regard and she nailed it in some other movies for me - but here it rubbed me the wrong way. How much I tried to like the slow tempo and interesting scenes, I just couldn't. And the 'old soul'/telekinetic stuff didn't help by the way.

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