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  Review by Cressa Maeve Áine ★★★★½

  Tilda collects different art house directors like Pokémon

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  Review by Karst ★★★★½

  movies to chill and study to

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A movie that much like the experience of its central character/performance asks you to open yourself up to the acoustic and psychological vibrations that connect our bodies to the earth and the earth to the great other. If you're willing to meet it it's a place of ghostly movements, alien sounds, and graceful landscapes; the only place where history, memory, and dreams all coalesce into an organically broadcasted, constantly flowing, echoing stream of ambient sensory (un)consciousness. It feels like an attempt at translating the impossible, or at least coming to some sort of terms with it, an attempt I ultimately found quite scary and moving simultaneously.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 13

  ahahahahhahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSS AHHHHHH YESSSSSS!!!!!

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  Review by KYK ★★★½ 18

  briefly fell asleep when he did.....power of cinema

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  Review by esther ★★★★★ 10

  i'm not sure i've ever been so arrested -- physically, attentively, emotionally -- in a movie theater before. like swinton's jessica (and i should say, this is the first time i've ever liked a swinton performance) i moved from an initial terror at the haunting boom in her head to irresistible curiosity to metaphysical longing, a desire for understanding that stretches into memories that are at once inaccessible and universal, the memory of the earth.

  i've always thought that ghosts must be real, in the sense that a space can capture and record the memory of something that lived within it. i think people, animals, anything can leave a record of itself behind in a place, reverberating forwards through time…

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  Review by Thomas Flight ★★★★½ 10

  This movie is now responsible for the greatest "exiting the theater" experience I've ever had. Without spoiling anything I can say that a loud "booming" sound plays a prominent role in this film. The narrative (in so far as there is one) centers around the source of the sound, and it often crops up in the film in rather startling and unexpected ways. It's a very slow, meandering, meditative film, and it was amazing to watch it with an almost-full screening of attentive viewers. Watching the film almost took on the quality of a group-meditation.

  Anyway this was at Grail Moviehouse in Asheville, which is a fantastic grunge-indie theater that is located near a train yard. As the theater emptied…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 8

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  Apichatpong Weerasethakul is operating on a whole other plane of existence, I swear. A film where its durational aspects provide a sensory basis for the soundscape that engulfs his typically mysterious imagery. In Memoria, a film that is, in part, about a woman attempting to understand the vast expanse of the world around her, it also provides an acute level of immersion for the audience. Each cut offers not only a disruption in what is being shown to us, but what is also being heard. The ambiguity is found in the utilization of sound, not necessarily the images. What interests Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a concept of the beyond, life in spiritual landscapes and the implications of something past our own horizons. A foundation in the supernatural intertwines with an examination of Colombian history. Sound is deployed to not just relay a collective sorrow, but a shared experience in the midst of self-discovery.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

  It's there if you listen.

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  Review by reibureibu ★★★★½ 53

  One of the hardest films I've ever had to sit through, not because it's bad or boring but because it's the first film I've seen so far that captures, to an all-too-painful degree, my experience with tinnitus.

  The auditory sensation that accompanies Joe's Memoria is almost-certainly the reason it's only ever officially playing in theaters, a sound that's quite difficult to describe in words (something the film itself acknowledges) but can be likened to a constant low roar, like being in a cavern next to the high tide. It's always there, never too loud, and often the daily textures of life do a good job overriding it. But when it gets quiet, when our character sits in silence on her…

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  Review by Sophy 1

  What is death like

  It’s fine 

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  Review by Hari Nef 2

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