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Title: You can't explain it--you just have to be there.
Review: Mémoires affectives is the story of a man named Alexandre Tourneur who awakens from a year-long coma with no memory of whom he is. He doesn't recognize friends or family. With the help of a police detective, he tries to put the pieces of his life together again.But the pieces keep changing shape. People tell him stories, then completely contradict themselves mere moments later. It happens again and again. Are they lying? Whose memory is affected? Alexander is searching throughout the film, but for what? For whom? The person who unintentionally awakened him from his coma? The person who caused the accident which put him in a coma in the first place? Or is there something else?I can't say more without spoiling the film but I can definitely understand why both the movie and Roy Dupuis (as Alexandre) won both the Jutra (the Québécois "Academy Award) and the Genie (the Canadian "Academy Award"). You have to see it to believe it.
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