Cinema
Lapse of Memory
Patrick Dewolf · 1992
Synopsis
Bruce Farmer, fifteen, is a boy like any other until the accident that makes him lose his memory. In trying to recover it, he discovers that the name he bears is not his own and that, for everyone, he died at the age of two. His parents have lived for years under an assumed identity, after his father denounced a criminal organisation, and the family's past resurfaces as the memories return.
Context
The film is a Franco-Canadian coproduction, put together by Max Films, the Montreal company of Roger Frappier, with Telefilm Canada, the Société générale des industries culturelles du Québec and FR3 Films. The screenplay, written with Philippe Le Guay, adapts a work by the American writer Robert Cormier. Shot in English under the title Lapse of Memory, the film was released in French cinemas in January 1992 under the title Mémoire traquée.
Who it is for
Eighty-five minutes; a thriller about memory and identity, built like an investigation conducted by a teenager.
Prizes and reception
Released in cinemas in France and then in Argentina; no known prize.
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