Jessica Chastain won Oscar for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and is Emmy-nominated for the Showtime series “George & Tammy” and the accolades are well-deserved in both cases. But it’s also great when Chastain sets aside the prosthetics and the wigs and the period-piece makeup and we can SEE her and be reminded she’s one of the most versatile and talented actors of her generation, as evidenced by her brilliant and technically proficient work in Michael Franco’s strange and unsettling and sometimes beautiful “Memory.”
This is a film in which characters make questionable and sometimes troubling choices right up until the final scene, and yet we understand why they do the things they do, and we root fiercely for things to work between them.
