This is how the Colombian film Memoria, by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, announced its selection in the Official Competition of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film has the participation of Tilda Swinton, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Díaz and will be presented in Colombia in October of this year .
Shot in Colombia in 2020, the film Memoria , by Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul, produced by Colombian Diana Bustamante, announced its selection at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in July.
Memory stars Tilda Swinton, who plays Jessica, a woman who has hallucinations, is tormented by a noise in her head and cannot sleep. In Bogotá, while visiting her sister, she befriends Agnes (Jeanne Balibar), an archaeologist who studies human remains discovered inside a tunnel under construction. Jessica travels to meet Agnes at the excavation site. And in a nearby town he meets Hernán (Elkin Díaz), a fisherman, and they share memories by the river. When the day draws to a close, Jessica wakes up with a new sense of clarity.
We suggest you read Discovering Forrester: An Exploration of the Human Condition (Part I)
In 2015, Diana Bustamante was the director of Ficci. And what began as an email of admiration and invitation to the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul, ended in the filming of Memoria in Bogotá and Pijao (Quindío) in 2020.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul traveled to Colombia until 2017 and stayed in the country for three months during which he screened his films and collected images and ideas about memory, the armed conflict and pain: although the film does not focus on the armed conflict or not It is about the armed conflict, it appears subtly. It is a film about the ways of remembering and not forgetting. A film in which Weerasethakul projected his personal ways of perceiving and remembering life.
You may be interested in reading History of Literature: “El lazarillo de Tormes”
