"Memoria" prompts Tilda Swinton to dream harder

A metaphysical thriller bordering on dreams and awakening. This is what Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers in his latest Cannes award-winning film,

. The Thai filmmaker, already webbed with gold ten years ago, a pacifist artist forced to flee to create after the incessant coups d'état in his country, found refuge in South America, and in particular in Colombia, for shoot this universal road trip with Tilda Swinton. A film about memory, we can imagine seeing the title

, full of holes (of memory) and unpublished noises like this big "bang" that the character embodied by the British actress is the only one to hear, which wakes her up in the middle of the night and prevents her from going back to sleep.

The director was inspired by a strange illness that struck him himself, the very real “exploding head” syndrome. “I was surprised by the sound of an explosion that did not come from elsewhere but from inside my head, as if someone was snapping a rubber band inside my skull which itself seems be made of metal, he says in the film's press kit. This loud noise reverberates through your brain, but instead of waking you up completely, it puts you in a semi-conscious state of listening and anticipation. "

There are other great ideas in

, and several unforgettable sequences of which we will be careful not to reveal the content or the detail.

We will only specify, to give you an idea of ​​the festivities that await you, that the character of Tilda Swinton in the film curiously bears the name of Jessica Holland.

Curiously, because it is also that of the heroine of

by Jacques Tourneur, who wakes up every night to the sound of a drum and walks like a zombie.

“It's one of my favorite films and I thought of this sound-driven character for my film,” says Apichatpong.

All the memory of the world

For the rest, the filmmaker acts like a sculptor by drawing on the material and removing the superfluous.

This time he sculpts the sound and tries to define the famous "bang" which obsesses the foreign blonde, in order to determine its origin.

This “big bang” which summons the ghosts and spirits dear to an artist capable of digging in the depths of the earth - or of the head - to bring out all the memory of the world.

Even if his film is more cerebral than spectacular, Apichatpong knows how to create this kind of atmosphere.

He is a poet, coupled with a smuggler, a shaman or a guardian angel, like the character of Hernan, played by two Colombian actors of different ages and who will, twice, come to the aid. to the confused woman embodied by Tilda Swinton, save her life, and maybe even the world with her.

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