Rememory AKA Dead man Memory (2024) Review
Rememory AKA Dead man Memory (2024) Review
David (Michaël Cohen – It Begins with the End, Them), a French police officer, travels to Thailand to meet Ravi – a young boy who claims to have been a criminal named Floyd in his previous life. Alongside his colleague Joanna (Caroline Ducey – Romance, Too Much Happiness), David enlists the young child and utilises his expertise to track down the dangerous criminal enterprise Floyd once had ties to.
But with Floyd’s wealth of damning evidence trailing back to Ravi, the mob put a target on the young boy’s back and the officers must race against time to protect their innocent informant, no matter what the cost.
Rememory is a film that tested my patience almost immediately. Within its opening ten minutes, I was perilously close to switching it off altogether, undone by dialogue that felt painfully stilted, performances pitched so extravagantly that they threatened to tip into outright parody, and direction so overwrought it occasionally resembled a lost spoof from the Zucker Brothers playbook.
And yet, despite — or perhaps because of — its flaws, I found myself compelled to continue watching. There is something undeniably mesmerising about a film so spectacularly misjudged that it becomes strangely fascinating. One cannot look away.
Central to the chaos is David, the lead character, whose emotional register appears permanently fixed at maximum intensity. Much of his screen time is spent shouting, screaming, or hurling objects in fits of melodrama that border on the absurd. It raises an unavoidable question: how has this man not been formally institutionalised? More baffling still is the unwavering composure of those around him. Joanna, alongside the young Ravi — enlisted as his assistant of sorts — responds to David’s astonishing overreactions with little more than mild concern, as though such behaviour were entirely routine.
In many respects, Rememory is a profoundly bad film. Yet it inhabits that curious cinematic space where ineptitude becomes entertainment. It is undeniably watchable, if only for all the wrong reasons — a jaw-dropping experience, though perhaps not in the way its creators intended.
Rememory is on UK digital 29 June from Miracle Media
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