Movie review: 'Marjorie Prime' is an elegant, haunting drama of memories
by By Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Aug 21, 2017
3 minutes
"It's always nice to be lied to." Those words are tossed off with a chuckle early on in "Marjorie Prime," but by the end they have acquired an almost prophetic significance.
Beautiful untruths and half-truths abound in Michael Almereyda's quietly shimmering new movie, which takes place in a somewhat distant future when our deceased loved ones can be summoned back as "Primes" _ artificially intelligent holograms that, through the act of talking and listening, become repositories of our own deeply unreliable memories.
Adapted by Almereyda from Jordan Harrison's 2014 play of the same title, the film is a
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