Memento (movie)

Memento is a 2000 American mystery-thriller movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and produced by Suzanne and Jennifer Todd. The movie's script was based on a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the 2001 story "Memento Mori" from the concept. Guy Pearce stars as a man who, as a result of an injury, has anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) and has short-term memory loss approximately every fifteen minutes. He is searching for the people who attacked him and killed his wife, using an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track information he cannot remember.

Memento
Directed by	Christopher Nolan
Screenplay by	Christopher Nolan
Based on	"Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan
Produced by	Suzanne Todd Jennifer Todd
Starring	Guy Pearce Carrie-Anne Moss Joe Pantoliano
Cinematography	Wally Pfister
Edited by	Dody Dorn
Music by	David Julyan
Production companies	Summit Entertainment Team Todd
Distributed by	Newmarket
Release dates	September 5, 2000 (Venice) March 16, 2001 (United States)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.5 million
Box office	$39.9 million

The movie is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the movie: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the movie, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.

Memento premiered at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and was released in the United States on March 16, 2001. It was acclaimed by critics, who praised its nonlinear narrative structure and motifs of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception, and earned $39.9 million over a $4.5 million budget. Memento received numerous accolades, including Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The movie is now widely regarded as one of Nolan's finest works and one of the best movies of the 2000s. In 2017, the United States Library of Congress deemed the movie and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Release dates

Country	Premiere
France	11 October 2000
United Kingdom	20 October 2000
Switzerland	26 October 2000 (German speaking region)
Ireland	27 October 2000
Spain	19 January 2001
Italy	19 January 2001
Belgium	31 January 2001
Netherlands	8 March 2001
Australia	12 April 2001
New Zealand	12 April 2001
Denmark	20 April 2001
Greece	26 April 2001
Iceland	27 April 2001
Hungary	17 May 2001
United States	25 May 2001
Norway	1 June 2001
Finland	15 June 2001
Russia	27 June 2001
Peru	28 June 2001
Singapore	28 June 2001
Portugal	29 June 2001
South Africa	6 July 2001
Sweden	13 July 2001
Mexico	14 July 2001
Turkey	27 July 2001
Israel	9 August 2001
South Korea	25 August 2001
Czech Republic	30 August 2001
Brazil	31 August 2001
Hong Kong	11 October 2001
Austria	9 November 2001
Poland	16 November 2001
Lithuania	30 November 2001
Slovakia	6 December 2001
Germany	13 December 2001
Estonia	4 January 2002
Argentina	7 February 2002
Taiwan	22 February 2002
Chile	2 May 2002
Uruguay	3 May 2002
Colombia	17 May 2002
Bulgaria	29 November 2002
Kuwait	1 January 2003