Found Memories

2011

1h 38m

Drama

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92%

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12 Reviews

71%

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250+ Ratings

Rita, a photographer, arrives in Jotuomba intent on capturing the village's special allure on film. While there, she learns how to make bread from Madalena and is welcomed until she asks about the locked cemetery.

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

The drama in "Found Memories" is subdued, sometimes almost invisible, but it moves with quiet assurance toward a startling conclusion.

Rated: 4/5

May 31, 2012

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Andrew Lapin

NPR

The feeling of twilight permeates Found Memories, which doesn't feel so much like a tale of discovery as it does a eulogy.

May 31, 2012

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Michelle Orange

Village Voice

Initially treated like the parasite she appears to be, over the course of this crisp, gracefully inflected meditation on time's passage, Rita develops the interest in her subjects that turns an image into more than stolen light.

May 29, 2012

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Found Memories is a moving tribute to memories we hold dear to ourselves. Murat's sensitive, leisurely storytelling style reminds me of magic realism in Latin American literary tradition.

Feb 28, 2021

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

Beautifully shot and beautifully scored, its languid pace only makes you like the cast more and helps create a fairytale-like atmosphere without seeming fake.

Jan 14, 2020

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

If a supernatural intepretation is correct, is the village's fate melancholy or enviable? Is an eternity of old age pleasant or pointless?

Rated: 3/4

Jun 18, 2013

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raphael g

Very beautiful. So nostalgic and sad.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Nice little story where we meet a little society where everyone seem to have their tasks and rituals. The lady that bake breads and the coffee guy is the main people of this little town. Everyone is old, but when the young Rita comes travelling by foot things change. She has brought her cameras and she documents her trip to the place. A place where people seem unable to die. The film is slow, but things happen occationally so it's never a bore fest. It's lovely shot and the fantastic music score that hit you with full effect a couple of times near the ending is brilliant as we look at the pictures taken througout the film. 7.5 out of 10 breads.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

deep relationships that go beyond words and intellect.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

Stunning cinematography in a simply lovely film. Each scene is meticulously framed and staged for maximum beauty. And without feeling mystical, the film makes you wonder if the characters are real or simply forgotten memories. After you have time to think about the possibilities, I think a second viewing is in order, to relive the simple beauty and ponder alternate realities.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

To all photography lovers this movie is the picture of its soul.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

It starts slow and moves in a subdued sensual way through the brief time that you spend together in this sleepy village; it turns into pieces of beauty, like videos of art glued together. I enjoy this because of how it made me feel, not what it did.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Júlia Murat

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Lisa Fávero

Rita

Sonia Guedes

Madalena

Ricardo Merkin

Padre

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Antônio dos Santos

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Synopsis

Rita, a photographer, arrives in Jotuomba intent on capturing the village's special allure on film. While there, she learns how to make bread from Madalena and is welcomed until she asks about the locked cemetery.

Director: Júlia Murat
Producer: Júlia Murat, Lúcia Murat, Julia Solomonoff, Christian Boudier, Juliette Lepoutre, Marie-Pierre Macia, Felicitas Raffo
Screenwriter: Júlia Murat, Felipe Sholl, Maria Clara Escobar
Production Co: Bonfilm, MPM Film, CEPA Audiovisual, Taiga Filmes
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.5K
Runtime: 1h 38m

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