[TIFF Review] ‘Memoria’ Is a Contemplative Meditation on Memory and Experience

There’s a calculated aimlessness to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, particularly in the way that the writer/director’s first film English and Spanish doesn’t employ a conventional narrative structure (there’s no rising action or climax, for example). Instead, as its title suggests, Memoria is intent on exploring memories and memorials and, in the process, (re)creating them as experiences […]

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‘Memoria’ Trailer: Tilda Swinton Shook by a Strange Sound [Video]

“It’s like a rumble…from the core of the earth.” Pegged as a drama, the mystery in Memoria looks and “sounds” horror adjacent, which is why I figured I’d share the first trailer ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival premiere. Apichatpong Weerasethakul directs the film that the fest says features the great Tilda Swinton (Constantine, […]

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