This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.About midway through Memory, the latest drama from writer-director Michel Franco that stars Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, there is a moment that lightly calls attention to how much time seems to have passed.
In any other film, such a scene would be part of the natural way a filmmaker would keep their audience up to speed about the scope of the story.
For Franco, it only brings attention to how almost unbound by time the story is.
Both in joy and in pain, days can begin to fade into one another.
That this film is then titled Memory, not to be confused with the terrible Liam Neeson action movie from last year, is merely one way that it pushes us to reflect on time.
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