Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and produced by Suzanne and Jennifer Todd. The film’s script was based on a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the 2001 story “Memento Mori” from the concept. Guy Pearce stars as a man who, as a result of an injury, has anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) and has short-term memory loss approximately every fifteen minutes.
He is searching for the people who attacked him and killed his wife, using an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track information he cannot remember.
- Starring : Guy Pearce / Carrie-Anne Moss
- Genre : Mystery / Thriller
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : Christopher Nolan
- Production : Newmarket Capital Group / Team Todd / I Remember Productions / Summit Entertainment
- Distributor : Newmarket Films / Columbia TriStar Home Video / Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution / Batrax Entertainment / Pathé Distribution / Istituto Luce / CDE Home Video / UGC PH / New World Films Internacional S.A. / Helkon Filmverleih GmbH / ECT / LW Editora / Lider Films / Paris Filmes / Belga Films / Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors / Columbia TriStar Films AB / Deliverance Pictures / Egmont Entertainment / Independent Films / Parco Co. Ltd. / Alliance Atlantis Video / Ascot Elite Home Entertainment / Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Film1 Sundance Channel / Fox Pathe Home Entertainment / Gativideo / Hollydan Works / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / Nelonen / Nordisk Film / Odeon / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / SubTV / UGC Video / Universal Pictures / Yleisradio (YLE) / Yorin
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Memento release date
- September 7, 2000 : France (Deauville Festival of American Cinema)
- September 9, 2000 : Canada (Toronto International Film Festival)
- October 11, 2000 : France
- October 14, 2000 : UK (Raindance Film Festival)
- October 20, 2000 : UK
- October 20, 2000 : India (internet)
- October 26, 2000 : Switzerland (German speaking region)
- October 27, 2000 : Ireland
- January 19, 2001 : Spain
- January 20, 2001 : USA (Sundance Film Festival)
- March 16, 2001 : USA (limited)
- April 12, 2001 : Australia
- May 25, 2001 : USA
- June 28, 2001 : Switzerland (German speaking region) (re-release)
- June 28, 2001 : Singapore
- July 13, 2001 : Sweden
- July 24, 2001 : Germany (München Fantasy Filmfest)
- August 9, 2001 : Israel
- November 3, 2001 : Japan (Tokyo)
- December 13, 2001 : Germany
- January 16, 2003 : USA (Palm Springs International Film Festival)
- April 27, 2014 : UK (Sundance London Film Festival)
- January 19, 2016 : Spain (Barcelona) (re-release) (subtitled version) (35 mm.)
Memento cast
- Guy Pearce as Leonard
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Natalie
- Joe Pantoliano as Teddy
- Mark Boone Junior as Burt
- Russ Fega as Waiter
- Jorja Fox as Leonard’s Wife
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Sammy Jankis
- Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs. Jankis
- Thomas Lennon as Doctor
- Callum Keith Rennie as Dodd
- Kimberly Campbell as Blonde
- Marianne Muellerleile as Tattooist
- Larry Holden as Jimmy
- Buzz Visconti as Motel Guest (uncredited)
The film is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.
Memento premiered at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and was released in the United States on March 16, 2001. It was acclaimed by critics, who praised its nonlinear narrative structure and motifs of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception, and earned $39.7 million over a $4.5 million budget. Memento received numerous accolades, including Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The film is now widely regarded as one of Nolan’s finest works and one of the best films of the 2000s. In 2017 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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