★★★★★ OUT 23 FEBRUARY CINEMAS
Awoman who can’t forget meets a man who can’t remember in a thorny drama that’s bleak, sad and hopeful in equal measure. Both a showcase for two superb performances and a complex meditation on how the past shapes the present, Michel Franco’s film is also a romance in which two damaged souls forge an unlikely connection.
Care worker Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a recovering alcoholic whose life revolves around her job, her sobriety and her daughter, Anna (Brooke Timber). When a school reunion ends with a fellow attendee following her home, her well-ordered existence gets disconcertingly disrupted.