“ELECTRIC CHAIR to everyone involved in this movie!” my friend Alexi writes in her Instagram review of Memoria. “I literally want to cry thinking about the time I’ll never get back.” Memoria was my favorite film of 2021. I’ve seen it twice and would eagerly sit through it again. Starring Tilda Swinton as a woman with exploding head syndrome, the film is slow in a welcoming, meditative way. Minute-long scenes pass where the main drama entails watching a dog follow Swinton’s character around, or she’s in an art gallery and suddenly some lights turn off. I could understand how sitting through it in the wrong mood could test your patience. But did my friend not know what she was in for?"