Forget Me Not (2015) (2024)

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• Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★½ 10

  A small miracle of movie, very romantic and devasting in how it is willing to let its idea play to full extent. Starts from high concept and moves towards fill it in with hard felt emotion. All the richer for allowing the central fantasy idea to become a free floating metaphor that passes for all possible associations without closing down in anything. Both young actors are great.

• Review by Jacob ★★★★★ 2

  Like Linda Linda Linda, a film that strikes a constant balance between the profound emotional significance of life changes when you're a teenager and the ultimate insignificance of these events in the long run. The trick of Forget Me Not is simply to accelerate the process for the benefit of cinematic time; memories fade minute-by-minute, and the central crisis is not the anxiety of losing what's important to you but the realization that you have already lost it and you don't know how that happened. Takashi uncovering his videos of Azusa towards the end captures the same feeling as looking at the oldest pictures on your phone or scrolling through old Facebook profile pictures. It's not so much a literal…

• Review by Diogo Serafim ★★★★ 3

  The camera remembers it all. Time remains.

• Review by nrh ★★★★½ 5

  one of the great surprises of the year: Les Jours où je n’existe pas
  for teenagers, or obayashi's seaside metaphysical youth films reconfigured for a post-iphone (and post hasumi school?) generation.

  profoundly quiet, shot for shot assured, and uses its central conceit with skill and careful consideration. ends where you wouldn't think it had the courage to go, because it understands the liminal space of teenage romance.

  assume this will get lost in 2015 discussion but a valuable film and kei horie seems like a man to watch. akari hayami gives one of the great performances of the year.

• Review by Vedant Bansal ★★★½

  "I hope the time we spent together won’t be stolen from me."

• Review by Arthur Tuoto ★★★★

  Quase um Romancing in Thin Air versão coming of age. Ou quem sabe o irmão neoclássico de Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind??

  Melhor coisa aqui é como o filme se apropria da imagem amadora como uma alegoria cinematográfica implícita. Especialmente em relação a tudo o que acontece após essa sequência. Um found footage amoroso que sabe muito bem articular todo um mundo de sensações entre imagem e presença, lembrança e registro.

• Review by jasmine 🍂

  i would’ve just killed myself if this happened to me idk

• Review by vansirr ★★★★

  A film that I know from the music video on youtube "Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl" and i tried this film and was very carried away by the situation, the ending was so sad at the same time hanging over

  I wish I had a girlfriend like Azusa and I hope I dont have lost memory.

• Review by saskia ★★★★

  so you’re telling me takashi never once opened his a laptop to look at his folders for an entire year? my screen time could never

• Review by Pedro Lubschinski ★★★★★ 2

  Existe um momento em Forget Me Not que deve ser uma das coisas mais poderosas que filmaram nesse século. É quando o protagonista, interpretado por Nijirô Murakami, revela que não se sente atraído por nada na "vida real" e por isso adquiriu o hobby de ver filmes. Porém, quando ele se encanta pela garota interpretada por Akari Hayami, que é esquecida por todos algumas horas depois que a conhecem, ele percebe que filme algum descreve a história deles e decide ele mesmo registrá-la com a câmera de seu iPhone. É possível que seja o uso de um registro em celular orgânico a narrativo mais dramaticamente eficiente que tivemos desde que isso passou a ser adotado frequentemente no cinema. O personagem…

• Review by Gondo ★★★★ 1

  Don't have much to add to what has already been said, just a small note:
  I loved how every scene with the two main protagonists in them, made a conscious effort to keep them in the same frame(or appearing in each others frame) at all time, because for the film and it's high concept falling in love wasn't just a state of emotions but also the feeling of acknowledgment, of validating ones own existence through the eyes of someone else. Beautiful in its formal intelligence yet completely unobtrusive for maximum impact.

• Review by aha ★★★★

  she looks like a girlfriend i never had