The Eternal Memory is unquestionably moving, and it fulfils its purpose of presenting Alzheimer’s Disease upfront. [...] Yet, by not adequately explaining who this man is, and offering greater context to his suffering, the effort falls short.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2024

There's a valid and tender love story here... but it takes the easy way, as while focusing on it, it takes away from questioning the discourse of the lost memory of Chile. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 15, 2024

The love story of these two, and the way Pauli makes her way through extraordinarily difficult moments in which he is upset or frightened, feels surprising over and over.

| Feb 29, 2024

Every flashback to their well-documented previous lives is a heartbreaker, and as time goes on the picture becomes bleaker still. But what shines through is love, and laughter. Lots and lots of laughter.

| Feb 27, 2024

This documentary not only chronicles the mental decline of a famous journalist, but it also shows us the beauty of love and marriage. It shows us how love persists, even when memory fails.

| Original Score: A | Jan 24, 2024

A document of extreme sensibility that brings us close to a man's loss of identity and that of a nation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2024

What remains after all else is gone is what you contributed to the world. Pinochet’s legacy is corruption and evil. Augusto Góngora’s legacy is love and dignity. Paulina Urrutia’s legacy is compassion and strength.

| Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2024

Rarely if ever do movies depicting the descent into Alzheimer’s qualify as “enjoyable.” But director Maite Alberdi’s documentary ... isn’t just an Alzheimer’s story. It’s a love story, and an undeniably beautiful one at that.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 15, 2024

The Eternal Memory is the result of a work that it's uncertain in principle but ends up being three beautiful and heartbreaking things... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 12, 2024

An ode to individual identity, memory, and those of an entire people. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2024

...an inside track to that little golden man...

| Jan 8, 2024

[The Eternal Memory] is an exercise in familiar, collective, and individual memory. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2023

It’s lopsided, and by emphasizing one half of her story over the other, Alberdi ends up doing a disservice to her subjects.

| Dec 10, 2023

The fairly pretentious use of incidental music and songs conspire (a little) against the final result of a moving film about the loss of memory of an individual who dedicated his life to ensuring collective memory was never lost. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2023

A documentary that destroys you, not only because of the drama of these characters but also because it makes clear the importance and fragility of memory. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 4, 2023

Although Maite Alberdi’s movie has a relatively light style (and a bit too much sentimental music), it makes a strong impression.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2023

A restrained, respectful piece of film-making that takes its lead from its two subjects.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2023

Instructive on cognitive decline, but overall too slight to hit home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2023

Alberdi makes this deceptively slim film hold much of value: happiness and sorrow; a salute to memory; and to film in helping it endure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2023

Sometimes God is just too on the nose when he makes his creations suffer; but at least Alberdi’s humane, profoundly empathic film-making offers some balm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2023