Memory (15)

★★★✭ Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard deliver incredible performances in Michel Franco’s sombre, bleak, yet hopeful, unlikely romance drama. ~ ManchesterTheatres.com

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Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, the Volpi Cup recipient at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, come together in acclaimed writer/director Michel Franco’s stirring new drama about two people learning how to start over with each other.

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★★★★ Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard excel as a delicate, painful duet in Michel Franco’s absorbing story about the unnerving reunion of a care worker and a friend from her past. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ In a film that could have bowed to easy clichés, Chastain and Sarsgaard are a class act — their touching, tactile chemistry is the film’s triumph. ~ Empire.

★★★★ Sombre themes then, but this film is beautifully acted, and the tender chemistry between Sarsgaard and Chastain is a joy to behold. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ A tough and draining watch that’s worth enduring for its well-matched leads’ compelling star turns. ~ Total Film.

★★★★ Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocation. Franco leaves several smoking guns to add to the ethical and narrative knottiness. ~ Irish Times.

★★★★ A gripping, original take on MeToo, insinuating and bravely acted, Michel Franco’s film makes us think not only about memory loss, but everything we choose to forget and can’t. ~ Telegraph.

★★★★ Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard shine in a delicate, trauma-fuelled anti-romcom. A social worker in recovery and a widower with dementia grapple with the past in Mexican director Michel Franco’s affecting drama. ~ The Observer.