Films at Heart: MEMORIA
Doors 7pm Film 7.15pm
Dir Apichatpong Weerasethakul/2hr 16min/Certificate 12A/2021
Tilda Swinton plays Jessica Holland, a woman from a village in Scotland, begins to notice strange sounds while traveling in Bogota visiting her sister who is ill in hospital. She’s bothered by the sounds which she hears repeatedly and are disturbing her sleep and seeks to find where the sounds are coming from and why…
Reviews:
Empire: 4 out of 5 stars “Ex-pat botanist Jessica (Tilda Swinton), based in Colombia, starts to intermittently hear an explosive sound that only she can detect. In trying to unravel this mystery, she charts an odyssey from urban recording studios to the deep jungle, in the hope of uncovering said sound’s puzzling source.”
Roger Ebert: 4 out of 4 stars “Rarely have a filmmaker and performer been so completely on the same page. Swinton is mesmerising in how she plays unsettled more than panicked. Some actresses would have leaned into the relative insanity of Jessica’s predicament, but Swinton carries it in a concerned look or a tightened posture. . “Memoria” is a sensory experience, but it takes a performer like Swinton to amplify the Director’s technique. We’re not just hearing the babbling brook and chirping birds on a soundtrack—we’re hearing them through Jessica’s ears. There will be thousands of words written on what “Memoria” is about but none of the readings of it would have any value without Swinton to centre them.”
Tickets £6.50/£5.50 available from HEART reception and online
