‘Memory’: Read The Screenplay For Michel Franco’s Thoughtful Drama Starring Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Michel Franco’s Memory, the thoughtful drama that won Peter Sarsgaard the Best Actor Volpi Cup in Venice earlier this year.
Franco directs and wrote the movie that also stars Jessica Chastain. The latter plays Sylvia, a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings.
This is blown open when Saul (Sarsgaard), who suffers from bouts of dementia, follows her home from their high school reunion.
Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past. In Venice, Franco told the press corps, “My biggest fear is losing my mind, which is what brought me to (the subject of) dementia.
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