| "I see a future but I do not see a past". The line cloaks the mysterious background of John a man who seemingly attracts more attention from intelligence and counter-terrorist agents than an Islamic fundamentalist party convention in Newtown.
The past hangs over this movie like a pendulum suspended out there somewhere but forever promising to bring time and place, effect and cause, consequence and reason back into sync.
Writer, director and producer Amit Tripuraneni creates a surrealistic theme by drawing the viewer into a tight world of strong central characters who each live cocooned within layers of secrets entwined, inter-related somehow by the assassination of a prominent political figure abroad.
Amit Tripuraneni presents a Vincent Ward style movie where darkness lurks behind every smile, turn, embrace. This psychological thriller accentuates a realisation that we all have to take ourselves with us wherever we may seek to hide. Certainly, in Memories of Tomorrow peace and solitude fast give way to pain and collapse when the establishment seeks recourse for passed wrongs.
Tripuraneni demands much from his lead actors John (Richard Thompson) and Tanya (Rachel Gilchrist) - a happily married couple living an idyllic life in New Zealand.
On the surface everything seems normal but John is a man, haunted by his nightmares and has no recollection of his past. Tanya is a woman who lives in the present and finds no use for the past.
Thompson and Gilchrist dig deep using unrushed dialogue to display an intimate timelessness in the telling of this story of love on the edge and how one’s past can revisit to destroy the facades of simplicity that we create.
Rachel Gilchrist is pure class in this movie her character Tanya is the hand that suspends the pendulum… for a time.
As Unkreative Artists’ promo says: the arrival of a mysterious stranger - Roger (Ray Trickitt) in New Zealand, triggers off an unstoppable chain of events, which culminate in the collision of two worlds. The past and the future unveils the secrets that time and distance had so easily forgotten.
This story culminates in an all revealing climax - gripping to its conclusion.
If Memories of Tomorrow is an indication of what graduates of South Seas Film & TV School can achieve with zero budget, then Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission, and New Zealand On Air ought to sign this talent up before someone offshore does.
Memories of Tomorrow has been selected for screening at Asian Film Festival www.anzfft.org.nz to be screened at the Academy Cinema, Auckland at 5:30pm on Friday May 20 and again at midday Sunday May 29.
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