2022
Cohen Media Group
2 h 16 m

2022
Cohen Media Group
2 h 16 m

Summary Taking place in the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia’s “City of Eternal Spring”) of the 1970s, the story tells of the life of prominent doctor and human rights activist Héctor Abad Gómez (Javier Cámara), a father who is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the famil...

Directed By: Fernando Trueba

Written By: Héctor Abad Faciolince, David Trueba

2022
Cohen Media Group
2 h 16 m

2022
Cohen Media Group
2 h 16 m

Memories of My Father

Name: Memories of My Father
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2022-11-16
Duration: 2 min 16 s
Rating: 58
Cast: Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, Juan Pablo Urrego, Patricia Tamayo, Maria Tereza Barreto

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Fernando Trueba

Written By: Héctor Abad Faciolince, David Trueba

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TheWrap

Nov 16, 2022

Trueba excels at those well-meaning, exquisitely realized, vividly acted human dramas. “Memories” translates those sensibilities to South America, and even if the product can’t exactly be seen as rousing, one can’t entirely resist its affecting charm.

By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW

Movie Nation

Nov 2, 2022

Cámara holds the film together and touches us with the moments we see him teaching important things like compassion and responsibility to his son.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

Nov 17, 2022

Adapted from a popular memoir by the late doctor’s son, Trueba’s film overcomes its ham-fisted clumsiness because it goes a step beyond hagiography. It’s a story filtered through the eyes of a grieving son in complete awe of his father, one told with enough warmth and detail that it could be easy to forget its memories don’t belong to the filmmaker himself.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

The Observer (UK)

Oct 25, 2022

Memories of My Father is a touch overlong and soapy and awkwardly structured. But it’s still an engrossingly watchable drama.

By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Dec 1, 2022

Too much of the film (an official selection at 2020’s Cannes Film Festival and Colombia’s entry in the 2021 Oscar race) lacks sufficient conflict and an organic sense of storytelling.

By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Nov 16, 2022

Perhaps Colombian audiences don’t need the history lesson, but skimping on the context in this case also makes the film’s mawkish impulses more glaring and grating, especially as Trueba shifts his observant domestic drama into something of a political rallying cry — a tepid one, at that.

By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW

Little White Lies

Oct 25, 2022

There’s something inherently unsatisfying about the film’s ambling structure, as the first hour flies by and nothing of great import has really happened.

By David Jenkins FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Caracol Televisión, Dago García Producciones, Lupin Film

Release Date Nov 16, 2022

Duration 2 h 16 m

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Website https://cohenmedia.net/product/memories-of-my-father

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Awards

The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema

• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations

Premios Macondo

• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations

Goya Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Memories of My Father

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Top Cast

Javier Cámara

Héctor Abad Gómez

Nicolás Reyes Cano

Quiquin (Héctor niño)

Juan Pablo Urrego

Héctor

Patricia Tamayo

Cecilia Faciolince

Maria Tereza Barreto

Mariluz

Laura Londoño

Clara

Elizabeth Minotta

Vicky

Kami Zea

Marta

Luciana Echeverry

Sol Niña

Camila Zarate

Sol

Whit Stillman

Dr. Richard Saunders

Laura Rodriguez

Barbara

Luz Myriam Guarin

Hermana Josefa

Aída Morales

Gilma

Gustavo Angarita

Aguirre

Kepa Amuchastegui

Arzobispo

Gianina Arana

Fisioterapeuta Andrea

Adriana Ospina

Silvia

Alberto Rodriguez

Betancurt

John Camilo Pinzón

Gabriel

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