Finally watched Memoria this week, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest #film, set in Colombia and involving Tilda Swinton as a Scottish expat living in MedellÃn, but visiting Bogotá and hearing a sound that unmoors her.
I'll be writing about it in next month's newsletter, but right now I keep coming back to the experience of *listening* that makes up the whole of this gentle film. No greater conflict to the plot. Just movement through the world. As we do. Do you stop to listen, too?
@MLClark It also has Wagner Moura, right? Think I saw a trailer a while back and it looked interesting especially with both of them as leads.
@BigBangBear No Wagner Moura -- but maybe you saw Juan Pablo Urrego and thought they looked similar? (They do!) "Leads" doesn't quite capture this film, though -- Swinton moves through moments with other characters, one after another, with details subtly shifting to suggest that she's not quite in the same reality/timeline in each one.
@MLClark Must have. Sounds pretty interesting.