Uno Momento

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2001)

Remember walking out of Usual Suspects and calling your best film friend and asking, `what the hell was going on in that movie?' and giggling like a maniac? Well, here's another one.
The membership of The San Francisco Film Society got it's opening day at the box office for this year's Film Festival off to a great start with a party and a sneak of Memento. Exiting Director Peter Scarlet praised writer/director, Christopher Nolan and tooted his own horn that the SFIFF premiered his first offering "Following" after Sundance passed.
But back to the moment, or Memento. You've probably heard the word by now, that this languid thriller is revealed in reverse.
A gorgeous cast: Guy Pearce, who was the morally flawed good bad guy from LA Confidential. Remember: That IS Lana Turner? Same ambiguity but with bleached hair and he takes his shirt off a lot. He's got this condition, short-term memory loss. He keeps explaining that to people, over and over again. Think Basil Fawlty meets Reservoir Dogs. Carrie-Anne Moss from Matrix fame really shines in this as the good-bad girl or was she the bad-good girl? Joe Pantiolano, who is always wonderful is..wonderful as the sidekick. Oooh, gee that memory thing is catchy.
Bottom line, this thing is great and you will probably want to see it more than once.