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Mémoires d'un juif tropical

1986 · 75 min

A slow, diary-like drift through memory and heat, more essay than story, asking you to sit with scattered images and a voice thinking aloud.

Overview
In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • isolation
  • love
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance4
Tension1
Darkness3
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Joseph Morder
Written by
Joseph Morder
Starring
Joseph Morder, Françoise Michaud, Vincent Tolédano, Nicole Tuffeli, Yvette Chalom, Paul Fogel, Danièle-Eilse Chalom-Fogel, Philippe Fano
Runtime
75 min
Country
France
Languages
English, French

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