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Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul 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.
2023 · Directed by Michel Franco · 104 min · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Plot
Sylvia, a single mother, social worker, and recovering alcoholic, reluctantly attends a high school reunion with her younger sister Olivia. Sylvia is perturbed by a man who sits next to and smiles at her. She leaves the event and is followed home by the man, who waits outside in the rain.
In the morning, Sylvia finds him sleeping outside, wet, and barely responsive. She finds out his name is Saul and phones his brother, Isaac, to retrieve him. At Saul and Isaac's home she is offered an apology: Saul has early onset dementia, causing him to get disoriented and confused, and hindering his ability to recall or create memories.
Sylvia takes Saul to a park to ask why he followed her. Saul says he doesn't know and can't recall meeting her before, which upsets her. Sylvia tells Saul that in high school some of his classmates got her drunk and sexually assaulted her. Sylvia accuses Saul of participating but he insists he doesn't remember that. Enraged, Sylvia steals his necklace with emergency contact info in it, abandons him, changes her mind, returns the necklace, and helps get him home.
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Crew
- Written by: Michel Franco
- Cinematography: Yves Cape
- Edited by: Michel Franco, Óscar Figueroa
- Production design: Claudio Ramírez Castelli
- Produced by: Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky, Michel Franco, Eréndira Núñez Larios
Cast
- Jessica Chastain as Sylvia
- Peter Sarsgaard as Saul
- Merritt Wever as Olivia
- Josh Charles as Isaac
- Elsie Fisher as Sara
- Jessica Harper as Samantha
- Blake Baumgartner as Ashley
- Davis Duffield as Male Nurse
- Billy Griffith as Security Guard
- Ross Brodar as Refrigerator Repair Man
Production
- Country: Chile, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Teorema, MUBI, Case Study Films, Screen Capital
- Box office: $313,000
- Themes: new york city, social worker, dementia, memory, high school reunion, abuse, romantic
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