Memento

Name: Memento
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967-12-20
Rating: 6.5

Drama1h 32m

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Popcornmeter

6.5

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Storyline

A day before the earthquake in Skopje, Wily Muller, a German conductor, while passing through the concert meets a young girl Jana, a student from Skopje. After several years they meet again at the "Solidarity Meetings" event, which is held in Skopje, where Wily Muller is a conductor at a concert held on that occasion. Those several days, spent together with the conductor, for Jana mean fulfillment with a kind of reminiscence of her family tragedy experienced during Skopje's earthquake, and also a wondering and search for a way of starting life again, which stopped on the day of the earthquake. Although the possibility of going with Muller is very attractive, Jana stays in Skopje. Her place is beside the young man whom she loves and belongs to, with whom she is related with true love...

Details

DirectorDimitrie Osmanli

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“Christopher Nolan skillfully guides the audience through Memento 's fractured narrative, seeping his film in existential dread.”

94% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Victoria Luxford

RTBBC.comAug 11, 2023

Very complex detective thriller. Guy Pearce (leads) a terrific cast alongside Carrie Anne Moss. If you want to see the beginnings of how Nolan became such a big director, this is one to watch.

Adam Kempenaar

RTFilmspottingApr 10, 2020

Think of all the ways that a linear film structure stabilizes us - the cause and effect chain of events. But Memento is about a character completely destabilized, so Nolan destabilizes us accordingly in a way maybe no other movie has.

Joshua Rothkopf

RTIn These TimesMar 16, 2020

Memento would only be half as fun with only one gimmick or the other. Instead, the backward storytelling and the frozen man make for a wonderful pair, combining into something far more redemptive than it sounds.

Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

RTTom & LorenzoJun 16, 2026

The beauty of director and screenwriter Nolan’s story is that it forces the viewer to reconsider what they’ve just seen constantly, throughout the movie. The ending is the beginning and the beginning is the ending.