Memento

Director: Christopher Nolan

2000 / 113min / 35mm

The indie sensation that put a young English director named Christopher Nolan on the map for good, this strikingly original, ornately structured neo-noir stars Guy Pearce as Leonard, a man on a mission of revenge after a savage attack that left his wife dead and him with anterograde amnesia, unable to store new short-term memory and forced to rely on an elaborate note-taking system in order to continue his single-minded pursuit of justice. “A brilliant feat of rug-pulling… [Nolan is] clearly excited by the way the medium can manipulate time and information, folding straightforward events and simple motives into Möbius strips of paradox and indeterminacy… Like an existential crossword puzzle, or a pungent 50’s B-thriller with a script by Jorge Luis Borges.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Criterion Pictures

Part of Neuro-Noir