BROADCASTS.com

The arrival of Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u2019s Memoria has been one of the film events of the year. Six years after 2015\u2019s Cemetery of Splendour, the filmmaker has returned to the big screen with his first feature set outside Thailand and his first collaboration with a bona fide movie star: Tilda Swinton.\n\nSwinton plays a British visitor in Colombia who finds herself afflicted with exploding head syndrome\u2014a condition that causes her to hear mysterious and sudden booming sounds. Apichatpong and Swinton turn this uncanny premise into an elusive and elliptical exploration of alienation, the slippery nature of communication, and the specters of history.\n\nDuring the New York Film Festival last fall, Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute sat down with the director and the actress to chat about their collaboration, the autobiographical origins of the film, and Apichatpong\u2019s interest in re-enchantment through cinema.