Unbelievable. Got to see this at the Colonial Theater in Belfast 💜 packed screening full of locals who recognized someone or something in almost every scene. Beautiful, tender, tragic, and everything in between.
The high school Moby Dick scene… 🏆
So grateful I happened to be here for this screening, I’ll be thinking about this film for a very long time!
Realizing you are no longer as compatible with an old friend as you once were — be it for xyz reasons — is truly one of the most devastating feelings you can experience as an adult. It’s a special hell of a heartbreak. I truly loved how this film explored this, it threaded such a delicate tension in this regard that is incredibly difficult to maintain and pulled it off almost effortlessly. So in awe of this whole team ♥️
All I allowed myself to know about this film was that Weerasethakul went to Colombia and was so moved that he had to make a film there. I felt I knew what he was referring to, without being able to describe it, and Memoria proves this was correct. There’s a scene near the beginning of the film where Jessica is walking in the city and the loud bang sounds off—and a passerby runs off in fear. I had such a visceral…
When I was a freshman in high school my older brother’s best friend was responsible for taking us to school and he drove a ‘96 Jeep Cherokee which had a broken gas gauge, and he would without fail pick us up way too late so we’d have to speed to get to school on time and we never knew if there was enough gas to make it. One time we didn’t and the car broke down and I missed a…
