Remainder

Remainder

classified 15
Film

Please note: This was screened in June 2016

Director
Omer Fast
Cast
Tom Sturridge, Arsher Ali, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers
Details
103 mins, 2015, UK/Germany

Israeli video artist Omer Fast delivers a startling adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s mind-bending first novel in this stylish and complex London-set thriller about a man trying to reassemble his life after losing his memory following a debilitating accident.

When an accident causes a large object to fall from the sky, landing on an unnamed man’s head (played by an intense and brooding Tom Sturridge), he’s left spending long months recuperating having lost all memory and sense of self. In recovery after this traumatic incident, he's visited by sensations of extreme déjà vu as he attempts to reconstruct his past via the few precious fragments of memory he retains. Having received a multi-million pound settlement as compensation, he becomes increasingly extravagant in enacting these memory fragments which sees him going so far as to buy an apartment block with specific markings; paying animal trainers to pose cats on a roof; hiring actors to work as neighbours; to repetitively, obsessively staging a bank robbery.

Mirroring the protagonist’s mind, and with echoes of films like Memento and the directorial style of Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) and Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour); Fast’s time-looping, memory twisting debut offers up a devilishly addictive sense of confusion via a narrative that is purposefully obscure, complex and almost certainly not what it seems.


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