Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Remember is a quietly devastating thriller anchored by Christopher Plummer's extraordinary central performance as Zev, an elderly dementia sufferer tracking down a Nazi war criminal. The plot is genuinely ingenious — blending a road movie, a memory-loss thriller, and Holocaust reckoning into something wholly its own. Plummer carries every scene with fragile dignity and mounting dread. Atom Egoyan's direction is restrained and precise without being visually spectacular, hence the modest cinematography mark. The film's novelty is high: the combination of dementia narrative, Nazi-hunting procedural, and the slow-burn twist creates a singularly haunting experience. The ending lands like a gut punch and recontextualizes everything that came before — one of the more genuinely shocking and morally complex finales in recent memory.