Tilda Swinton and award-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul join forces for dreamlike Memoria
Winner of the Cannes 2021 Jury Prize opens at VIFF Centre’s Vancity Theatre on May 27
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Tilda Swinton stars in Memoria, a film that is as mysterious as it is mesmerizing.
Memoria, the much-anticipated new film from the extraordinary mind of director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is opening at VIFF Centre on May 27.
Starring Tilda Swinton, the dreamlike, bewildering drama follows a Scottish woman who begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. Swinton plays Jessica, an expat orchid grower with a strange malady: she recurrently experiences a booming sound that no other character can hear. The quest for answers takes Jessica from a recording studio to the Amazon jungle.
Weerasethakul, one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, earned the Cannes 2021 Jury Prize for the film, which is meditative, hallucinatory, and enigmatic. His interest here is in the poetic and the mysterious, one full of beautiful imagery that will linger in the mind, along with strange sounds and the feeling of having emerged from a splendid dream.
The New York Times has called it “an emotionally wrenching and intellectually fulfilling experience”, while the Guardian described it as “astonishing”.
Memoria screens May 27 to June 5 at the Vancity Theatre; see here for showtimes and tickets.
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