The first of seven collaborations between director Christopher Nolan and cinematographer – and AFI Alum – Wally Pfister (AFI Class of 1988), MEMENTO (2001) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2001, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, ”MEMENTO the traditional rules of movie narrative upside down, backwards, forwards and sideways. The film is like a complex jigsaw puzzle, but after all the pieces are assembled, it turns out not to be the picture on the box.”
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