Presented in collaboration with Cinema Mentiré.
Sunday's screening will have a live introduction from Vladimir Rosas-Salazar.
This film is part of our season celebrating the films of Chilean director Maite Alberdi, running from July to September.
You can find the other films in the season and information about our wider year-long season spotlighting international female filmmakers, here.
Augusto Góngora, a veteran Chilean journalist and prominent chronicler of the crimes of the Pinochet regime, and Paulina Urrutia, actress, activist and politician, have been a tight-knit loving couple for over 20 years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago, and now they both face the inexorable and accelerating descent of his physical and mental powers together. The Eternal Memory is both an inquiry into human dignity in old age and adversity and into the mechanisms of individual and collective remembrance.
Original title: La memoria infinita
Original language: Spanish
Presented with English subtitles
Speaker Bio:
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar is a Chilean scholar of film and media, whose research examines memory, archives, and non-fiction cinema in Latin America. He holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick and an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has taught Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University of London, as well as film and media courses at universities in Chile. He is currently writing a book on home videos as memory devices in Chilean documentaries, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2027.
We're launching a new strand here at the Lexi called LEXI SELECTS!
Our programming team bring you a curated weekly release that didn't get the attention it deserved here. Some may be films we missed from earlier this year, some may be from a few years ago, but they're all exceptional films which we think our audience will adore.
Bora reunite for more unmissable Brazilian cinema at The Lexi Cinema in partnership with Cine Brazil!
Throughout August we're screening 4 Brazilian classics from the 2000s, and in September a bonus film to close things out.
Rewatch the saudosos classics or catch them for the first time on the big screen.
📽️ A Dog's Will (Auto da Compadecida) - Aug 2, 4 & 6
📽️ City of God (Cidade de Deus) - Aug 9, 10, 12 & 13
📽️ Ó Paí, Ó - Aug 16, 18 & 20
📽️ Basic Sanitation the Movie (Saneamento Básico) - Aug 23, 25 & 27
📽️ Bacurau - Sep 6 & 10
All Sunday screenings will have an introduction before the film.
All films with English subtitles.
