[Sarai Newsletter] Film at Sarai - May 30, 2003

[The Sarai Programme]

Dear Friends,

Sorry for the short notice. This Friday we will be screening Memento by 
Christopher Nolan. The synopsis is below. Do come.

Cheers,
Ranita
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
Tel:  (+91) 11 23960040
       (+91) 11 23951190
Fax: (+91) 11 23943450
www.sarai.net

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Memento (2000)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Duration: 109 Minutes

on Friday, May 30, 2003, 4:30 pm
at the Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054. 

Christopher Nolan's Memento is a unique and intriguing thriller that begins 
with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the 
shocking and provocative reasons behind it.

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce) remembers everything upto the night his wife was 
brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from 
short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has visited 
or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife 
was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by 
taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his 
investigation he appears to have the help of both the bartender 
Natalie(Carrie-Ann Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police 
officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect.
As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of 
deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns 
rapidly occur in one of the most challenging, original and critically 
acclaimed thriller in years.

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