Venice Festival Winner!

Starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard in performances worth treasuring, Memory slowly builds its way into your mind and heart. Chastain plays Sylvia, a trained social worker and a recovering alcoholic. The wary Sylvia is dragged to her sister’s high school reunion and notices a man staring hard at her, following her home and camping outside her apartment. He is Saul, played by Sarsgaard in an acting master class that won the top acting prize at the Venice Film Festival. Sylvia quickly intuits that Saul has mental issues, confirmed when she contacts his brother Isaac (Josh Charles). It turns out that Saul is suffering from early-onset dementia, causing him to get lost and go in and out of coherence. That’s when Isaac, who serves as Saul’s guardian, offers Sylvia a job as his part-time caretaker. She accepts, but with a secret agenda that eventually reveals itself. How can a romance, which angers Saul’s brother and confuses Sylvia’s daughter, develop from such emotional chaos? Chastain and Sarsgaard find tender mercies in the simple act of trying. You’ll be moved to tears.–ABC News