Mémoire des apparences

Ruiz explores memories, the experience of life as a series of interconnected images, facts, and history through the metaphor of cinema. With multiple intertwined layers, Ruiz builds a movie that behaves like mnemonic associations. Similar behaviour and following the same logic as in a dream. As usual with Raul's movies of course. Absolutely magical. You cant help but gaze as the master director uses lights, shadows and angles to create a nauseous environment. The movie unfortunately didnt catch as much interest and fascination as the directors other films I've seen, on the other hand, it was absolutely more philosophical and telling. But maybe I have to do the film justice and not watch it on a VHS rip with burnt in subtitle.