Searching for yourself amid carnal pleasures for one night of memory “No Memory” ("Novo) is a rather rare film, as it was put into operation as an arthouse film, which is a rare guest of cinemas, unless they are tuned to this topic. Often such films as “Without memory” are the same guests of various film festivals, which, again, in turn, are tuned to the style and genre selected for the film “Without memory”. Yes, this kind of cinema has its unwavering fans, negatively looking at the multimillion-dollar blockbusters produced by Hollywood, for such viewers the main thing is the soul, context, inner content, for the awareness of which it is necessary to connect not only vision and hearing, but also your sensitivity, fibres to understand what the creators wanted to say with this picture. In general, such films as “Without memory” are a work of art, understandable to a small circle of admirers and therefore it is not always an easy task to look for such a movie, but still they leak out and can be recognized as a masterpiece, but this happens not so often.
“Without memory” in the masterpieces of arthouse cinema is not worth recording, since this tape does not carry much significance. More the authors of the picture wanted to provoke the viewer and critics a little, because its sexual-love shell is expressed not in those hot, but fitting within the permissible, scenes, but in its close, albeit point-like reference to the genre of lorno (light such porn). Almost naked actors and several bed scenes largely predetermine the general attitude to the film “Without memory”, while forgetting the main storyline of the picture, when the main character is deprived of memory, he forgot his wife, who does not lose hope to return his husband in good health, but he, not remembering her, gives love pleasures with other women. Probably, this is the biggest problem of the tape: its focus on eroticism and the main storyline are rather poorly glued together and the mosaic of human relations in the film develops with great difficulty and it is necessary to monitor the dialogues very carefully, but how can you watch if you are constantly distracted by scenes that are contraindicated for children?
In principle, this state of affairs in the picture can be understood if you look at who was the screenwriter of “Without Memory”. Christophe Honore is clearly following in the footsteps of François Ozon, the most provocative director from France, but Ozon does not pay as much attention to intimate relationships as Honore. After No Memory, he will re-write the script, and this time he will direct the film My Mother, which scares with its openness the most hostile sexual topics, such as incest. The word itself is disgusting, but Honore only needs the viewer to develop a scandal around his painting. But with the tape “Without memory” he seemed to be just preparing for his plan, that’s why, we can say, the plot of the picture is so weakly entangled with his visual part, forcing everyone to come back from what it all began and how now to treat everything that is happening. The name of the director of the film Jean-Pierre Limosin is unlikely to say something to many viewers, his paintings often did not go into international circulation, so that the fact that the film “Without memory” still can be seen is a merit of Christoph Honore.
Well, besides Christoph Honore, it should be noted the actors who starred in such a dubious project, but still did not get scared and worked in the picture as required by their direct management on the set. For their professionalism and for not being afraid to be criticized by them, a special thank you. The main male role was played by Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega. He clearly made his voice known after his role in the intimidating film “Diploma Work” (for those who have not seen it, it is worth it). After he played in well-known films and shot for a small number of viewers, the latter includes “Without memory”. Eduardo Noriega played the role of a kind of hero-lover, but with his oddities, but with a strange influence on women. In principle, a good role, although to reveal for all his hero, he, in my opinion, failed. Among the girls, Anna Muglalis draws attention. She wasn’t shy about bed scenes, but that doesn’t mean she’d be in porn, but it means Muglalis treated the role in the film as creative. And there's Paz Vega, already a pretty recognizable actress on the other side of the Ocean. From her heroine, honestly, I wanted more drama, but the creators of “Without memory” somehow stubbornly forgot.
In general, I will not recommend such a movie to anyone, it was shot for its fans. It is strange, unusual, sometimes incomprehensible, sometimes frank. This movie has a good selection of actors, but somehow the director and screenwriter could not fully express their idea in the tape or answer the question that they wanted to say the film “Without memory”.
5 out of 10