After long lapse, amnesia films are back

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: November 7, 2003| Author: Terrence Rafferty | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

11-07-2003

Ever since Christopher Nolan's tricky rewind-button thriller, ''Memento,'' impressed audiences and (too many) critics a couple of years ago, amnesia has, improbably, emerged as the movies' psychological disorder of choice, eclipsing even the Oscar-winning schizophrenia of ''A Beautiful Mind.'' The amnesia craze has already produced a pair of oddball classics, David Lynch's ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001) and Aki Kaurismaki's ''Man Wit...

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