April 5, 2013
REVIEW: ‘Trance’ Has No ‘Memento’
That headline should be my entire review, but that would be an unkindness to a director I greatly admire, as everyone should.
By way of partial explanation for the headlines play on words, Danny Boyle’s new film owes a fair amount to Christopher Nolan’s early masterpiece Memento, also about memory loss and the disastrous consequences of its recovery, and the various clues, people and obstacles that serve as mnemonics
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