Who are we if not the sum of our experiences, both the good ones and the bad. Christopher Plummer's new movie, Remember, asks what happens when those experiences—those memories—start to disappear.
Directed by Atom Egoyan, Remember finds Plummer playing Auschwitz survivor, Zev Guttman. Zev is suffering from dementia, a condition made worse by the recent passing of his wife, Ruth. In fact, every time Zev wakes up, whether from a nap or a long slumber, he calls out for her, wondering where she is. It is a refrain repeated in the movie, and it never fails to make one feel for the man.
The heart of the tale though is not Zev's losing his wife nor his feelings stemming from that loss, but rather the journey a friend of his, Max Rosenbaum (Martin Landau), sends him on once Zev is finished sitting shiva. As Max explains it, Zev promised that once his wife had passed on, he would find a man by the name of Rudy Kurlander. There are, it seems, four men of that name in the U.S. and Canada, and Max has coordinated the trip for Zev.
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Directed by Atom Egoyan, Remember finds Plummer playing Auschwitz survivor, Zev Guttman. Zev is suffering from dementia, a condition made worse by the recent passing of his wife, Ruth. In fact, every time Zev wakes up, whether from a nap or a long slumber, he calls out for her, wondering where she is. It is a refrain repeated in the movie, and it never fails to make one feel for the man.
The heart of the tale though is not Zev's losing his wife nor his feelings stemming from that loss, but rather the journey a friend of his, Max Rosenbaum (Martin Landau), sends him on once Zev is finished sitting shiva. As Max explains it, Zev promised that once his wife had passed on, he would find a man by the name of Rudy Kurlander. There are, it seems, four men of that name in the U.S. and Canada, and Max has coordinated the trip for Zev.
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