‘Memory’ Review: Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard Reconnect, Disrupt Several Lives In Michel Franco’s Thoughtful Drama – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comSylvia (Jessica Chastain) lives behind an exceptionally well-locked door. Her apartment has three locks of different kinds, keeping out anyone who managed to get past the intercom protecting the front entrance.
As a woman living alone with a teenage daughter, perhaps she has her reasons. Just tonight, a man followed her home from her high school reunion, catching the same train, shadowing her from the station and finally sleeping outside her building under a plastic bag.
Strangely, she is quite blasé about that: In the morning, she deals with it, demanding this man’s phone and finding someone in his contacts who can come and pick him up.
She is nervous, but she is a coper. What really stays with Sylvia is the sexual abuse she endured in childhood, first at home and then at school, where a coterie of older bullies would get her drunk and force her to service them on the way home.
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