In dour dirge NY drama "Memory" relentlessly joyless recovering alcoholic / sexual abuse survivor Jessica Chastain (single mum to poor teen Brooke Timber) strikes up a bizarrely toned romance with chronic dementia sufferer Peter Sarsgaard, to which the normal functioning adults around them (like Sarsgaard's brother Josh Charles) understandably react with concern (especially after a couple of disturbing incidents). Quite what writer / director Michel Franco intended with this miserable tripe is unclear, but what he produces is a depressingly downbeat ghoul of a film (albeit with the technically decent performances to be expected from the principals). It's an awful turd. Flush it.
Review of Memory
