A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
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- 10 wins & 27 nominations
Daniel Toro
- Anthropologist Assistant
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- TriviaIn an unconventional move, art-house film distributor Neon is releasing Memoria in the USA "from city to city, theater to theater, week by week, playing in front of only one solitary audience at any given time." And furthermore, according to IndieWire (10/5/21) the film will only play in theaters and it will not become available on DVD, on demand, or on streaming platforms. They later abandoned this release strategy though after touring through only New York and Chicago and the film was eventually released in many cities simultaneously across North America in April, 2022.
- Quotes
Older Hernán Bedoya: I remember everything, so I limit what I see.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Radio Dolin: Stream with Anton Dolin (2021)
- SoundtracksMemoria
Written by César López
Piano performed by César López
Cello performed by Sandra Parra
Recorded by Julio Monroy
Recorded in Bogotá, Columbia by Burning
(C) 2020 Burning
Featured review
To me this is the main issue with Memoria. For example, the IMDB question about spoilers is not even needed, there can be basically no spoilers when reviewing this film, since the "narrative" (can't really call it that) is fragmented and merely the pretext for the reflections the movie undertakes on several clever memory-related topics (notably the reality of recollection), from the simple perspective of the experiences concerning a single human individual, to the collective thoughts of a society as a whole. In that vein the characters and some movie conventions (the classical journey of the main character, although we are never sure what it exactly is) are used as a sort of vessels.
As long as that is accepted I found that most of my criticism (which would put me firmly on the side of "bad" reviewers) fell off the wayside, and I enjoyed this beautifully shot contemplative piece for what it was.
But why didn't I rate it higher? Frankly because I was underwhelmed with the meditation itself or the tropes enveloping it (as I saw them), finding some of them trite and even ridiculous. Meditation around different issues comes also from some sort of familiarity, and I was not convinced that the filmmaker was not merely a tourist in this universe, rather than someone with a particularly deep insight.
This sort of approach is, of course, totally acceptable, just not something I could relate to here, as I could in other films he has done. And thus issues such the length of the film (as well as some of the sequences) became a problem, which would not have been the case had I felt fully in sync with the piece.
As long as that is accepted I found that most of my criticism (which would put me firmly on the side of "bad" reviewers) fell off the wayside, and I enjoyed this beautifully shot contemplative piece for what it was.
But why didn't I rate it higher? Frankly because I was underwhelmed with the meditation itself or the tropes enveloping it (as I saw them), finding some of them trite and even ridiculous. Meditation around different issues comes also from some sort of familiarity, and I was not convinced that the filmmaker was not merely a tourist in this universe, rather than someone with a particularly deep insight.
This sort of approach is, of course, totally acceptable, just not something I could relate to here, as I could in other films he has done. And thus issues such the length of the film (as well as some of the sequences) became a problem, which would not have been the case had I felt fully in sync with the piece.
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- Пам'ять
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- Gross US & Canada
- $52,656
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,797
- Dec 26, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $588,713
- Runtime2 hours 16 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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