A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Acting
Taissa Farmiga's chilling precision vs Strong's weary gravity
Direction
Memory sequences blur reality with elegant visual rules
Cinematography
Crisp, cold architecture mirrors emotional imprisonment
Director
Jorge Dorado
Mark Strong
John Washington
Taissa Farmiga
Anna Greene
Brian Cox
Sebastian
Saskia Reeves
Michelle Greene
Richard Dillane
Robert Greene
Indira Varma
Judith Morrow
Noah Taylor
Peter Lundgren
Alberto Ammann
Tom Ortega
Jessica Barden
Megan 'Mousey' Scanlon
Clare Calbraith
Jaime Feld
Julio Perillán
Senator Rockford
Rod Hallett
Detective Worner
Sanny van Heteren
Samantha Harris
Antonia Clarke
Susan Merrick
Frida Palsson
Anna Washington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Jorge Dorado's feature debut after years as Spielberg's storyboard artist—notice the precise visual blocking in memory sequences.
The film's 'memory machine' premise borrows heavily from Inception but flips it: here, the architect is the mark, and the extractor is the one being conned.
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