(ANSA) - CANNES, JUL 15 - They are not the 'blows of fate' of Beethoven's third symphony, but they hit much stronger, less musical, real roars that the protagonist of MEMORIES hears of the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul, or Jennifer (TildaSwinton) cultivator of orchids visiting his sick sister in Bogota.
And these shots are not the only strange things that happen in this film, running in this 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, not surprisingly signed by a director accustomed to working in an anthropological and metaphysical perspective at the same time in search of the voices of nature such as of the meaning of life and its signs.
Shocked by these sounds, which seem to come from the center of the earth, the woman obsessively seeks their meaning even to get rid of them: in fact she is no longer able to sleep.
So he goes to a musical engineer and musician (Elkin Diaz) to slowly and faithfully reconstruct the sound and also meets a French archaeologist (Jeanne Balibar) with whom he befriends.
In Bogota he learns of a Brazilian tribe, 'the invisible ones', who avoid contact with others and then witness a symphony of alarms, cars and apartments, which ring and keep silent in unison. (HANDLE).