The independent drama Memory – starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Saarsgard – has been making waves on the festival circuit. Catch your first look here.
Memory, Jessica Chastain’s new drama, sees her play a social worker living a simple life. That is until she’s followed home from a high school reunion by an old classmate.
The movie received an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA so that its stars could promote it at Toronto International Film Festival where the film picked up something of a buzz. Also, Chastain and director Michel Franco have apparently worked together again on Dreams – the filming on which is reportedly already complete.
Just to be clear, this isn’t the film called Memory where Liam Neeson hits people and breaks a toilet. (We don’t want you to be disappointed.) You can find that trailer here. Memory will be Franco’s second English language film after 2015’s Chronic, which starred Tim Roth. It will also be the fifth collaboration between the filmmaker and cinematographer Yves Cape. It wrapped filming in New York last summer.
Franco said of the film that “I was honoured to collaborate with a great ensemble cast and to shoot in a city that is a character in itself. I look forward to sharing it with the audience”. Given the positive reaction to the film thus far, we’re keen to see it, although we don’t yet have a UK release date, expect to see it released around January time.
Here’s that trailer below.
We’ll leave you with the US synopsis for the film…
Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, the Volpi Cup recipient at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, come together in acclaimed writer/director Michel Franco’s stirring new film “Memory,” to be released on December 22 in New York and Los Angeles prior to a nationwide rollout on January 5 from Ketchup Entertainment. Franco’s drama about two people learning how to start over with each other is an IndieWire Critic’s Pick and also screened at the Toronto, AFI, London, San Sebastián, Savannah and Morelia film festivals. Check out the exclusive poster debut here.
We await news of the UK release…
