Memory

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard lead Michel Franco’s profound romance of two damaged New Yorkers.

Sylvia (Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul (Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

Chastain and Sarsgaard deliver weighty performances in a film that Variety describes as “the Silver Linings Playbook of Michel Franco’s career: an unexpectedly accessible romance between two damaged human beings, from an independent director who’s been known to put characters through some of life’s most punishing indignities.”