Corrie Film Club

The next film showing at Corrie Film Club is Memoria (UK/Colombia, 2021. Weerasethakful. Cert 12), on Sunday 14th May at 7.30pm in the Corrie and Sannox Village Hall.

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

Jessica (Swinton), a Scottish woman and orchid farmer, living in Colombia, awakens one night to a single loud boom. She appears to be the only one who can hear it. The next day, she goes to visit her sister, Karen, who is ill and in hospital, and begins to learn more about an excavation project being carried out in the same hospital where her sister is being treated. As the sounds disturb her waking moments and keep sleep at bay, she begins researching their origins — a mission that becomes ever more hypnotic and unsettling as it leads her out into the surrounding forest.

For a review by Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, follow this link