An Existential Film About the Oddities of Modern Life
<em>Memoria</em> channels a universal experience: the feeling that something is cosmically out of whack.
The first thing the viewer hears in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s is a loud but distant thud. The vague sound stirs Jessica Holland (played by Tilda Swinton) from her sleep and then begins to haunt her. Over the next two hours and 15 minutes, Jessica tries to understand what it is that she keeps hearing, a distracting noise seemingly perceptible only to her. That story line might read like mundane horror, but Weerasethakul’s films are not
