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Agnes Brekke. Actress: Memoria. Agnes Brekke is a Colombo-Norwegian actress, born in England and brought up in Colombia. Graduated with honors from an interdisciplinary MA in Theatre and Performance Arts in Colombia in 2015.
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Sep 30, 2021 · Memoria: Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. With Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón. A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
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- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- 2021-09-30
Dec 23, 2021 · The sound startles Jessica at dinner with her sister (Agnes Brekke) and brother-in-law (Daniel Giménez Cacho), and follows her from Bogotá to a small town in the mountains. The possibility that...
- Memoria Plot Summary and Movie Synopsis
- Who Is Hernan in Memoria?
- What Is The Meaning of The Word Memoria?
- What Is The Sound in Memoria?
- Memoria Movie Themes Explained
- Memoria Movie Ending Explained
At the start of the film, we are in Jessica’s bedroom. It is late at night, and everything is seamlessly quiet when we suddenly hear a sound. It is like an explosion in the distance (at least that is my interpretation of the sound at the first go). The sound wakes Jessica up. She tries to look for the source of this sound in her house but finds not...
Hernan is a sound engineer in a music studio at Bogata, Columbia, who helps Jessica try to recreate the sound she is so deeply plagued and moved by. Jessica’s interactions with him tell us that he has come quite close to faithfully reproducing the sound that Jessica sought. They also seem to be warming up to each other, until he hints at a romantic...
Memoria is a Latin word and one of the aspects of speech in classical Western rhetoric. By memoria, we can refer to the act of recalling something that, in turn, has far-surpassing effects on forming arguments. Some also seem to refer to memoria as a state of the human mind in between sleep and wakefulness. It is a state of limbo where memories of ...
The sound is the source of all curiousness in the film Memoria (2021). Is it a loud bang, or is it a sonic boom? It is difficult to pin the sound down. Let us tell you a curious history of the sound first. The director, Weerasethakul, has confessed to suffering from a rare parasomnia, the exploding head syndrome. It was apparently this that helped ...
The Nature of Art: Creation v/s Imagination
Ever since Jessica heard that sound on a fateful night, she hasn’t had a wink of sleep. We find her constantly trying to understand the sound better. To that extent, she goes to a sound engineer and tries to reproduce it. Along with her, the audience participates in the curious act of recreating the sound – more bass, earthier, shaped round, etc. Yet, we can only get so close to creating it as our individual, and therefore unreliable, empirical perceptions allow. It brought back to me the fir...
Curiosity: Poetic and Political
If there’s something that stands out in this film, it is the nature of human curiosity. Right from the moment Jessica wakes up to the sound to the moment when she follows the older version of Hernan into his hut, Jessica is curious. She is curious enough to want to recreate the sound for herself or go for a doctor’s check-up to find out if anything is wrong with her. Not only Jessica but everyone around her seems to be curious cats of their own kinds – her sister mentions wanting to know abou...
When Jessica thinks that she is starting to lose her grasp on reality, she travels to a village close to the mountains. She chances upon a man, sitting beside a river and cleaning the fish’s scales, who tells her that he has a remembrance of everything. He goes by the name Hernan and says that he remembers space, can speak in monkey language, and k...
Jul 15, 2021 · Cast: Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Agnes Brekke, Jerónimo Barón, Constanza Guitérrez. Director-screenwriter: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 2...
Sep 16, 2021 · She’s visiting her sister Karen (Agnes Brekke), who’s in a Bogata hospital suffering from a mysterious respiratory ailment. Initially, Memoria seems to concern Karen’s short-term memory...
Dec 17, 2021 · December 17, 2021. Art-house clichés and imaginative exaltation intertwine in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new drama, set in Colombia. Tilda Swinton plays Jessica, a British botanist who, while...
