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The Eternal Memory
Directed by
Maite Alberdi
Not Rated
2023
85m
Documentary
7.4
92%
93%
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Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
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Cast of The Eternal Memory
Paulina Urrutia
Self
Augusto Góngora
Self
Maite Alberdi
Director / Writer / Producer
Pablo Larraín
Producer
Rocío Jadue
Producer
Juan de Dios Larraín
Producer
The Eternal Memory Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 3, 2025
Memory loss can be terrifying and heartbreaking, and there’s certainly plenty of that here, but in Paulina and Augusto’s battle against his Alzheimer’s there’s also plenty of heartwarming and life-affirming love as they hold tight to the memories of their 25 year marriage. Directed by Maite Alberdi who directed another doc I loved in The Mole Agent
NPR
Linda Holmes
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.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
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.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
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.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
...an inside track to that little golden man...
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
It's lopsided, and by emphasizing one half of her story over the other, Alberdi ends up doing a disservice to her subjects.
Los Angeles Times
Sergio Burstein
Going beyond political commentary, this is a story of love that, now, has been recorded forever. [Full review in Spanish]
Chicago Reader
Adam Mullins-Khatib
Maite Alberdi brings us one of the most heartfelt renditions of life, love, and memory in recent years of cinema.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The film's most difficult sequences might lead some viewers to question what is to be gained by peering into someone's life at its most physically and psychologically unguarded. But Augusto's own career bearing witness provides the bracing answer.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Truly, it is elucidating for folks who've never seen dementia up close, and guttingly familiar to those who have. But even more profound is the film's record of a remarkable love.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
What rings truest and richest about The Eternal Memory, as exquisitely humane a film as you're likely to see all year, [i]s what abiding love and stewardship look like in the moment.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A testament to the vitality and fragility of memory that itself serves as an act of preservation-of a prized past, a fraught present and an everlasting devotion.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
The loving, lyrical Maite Alberdi -directed documentary is the story of one man's decline due to Alzheimer's disease, but it's so much more. It's a stronger love story and one that tries to say things about a country's collective memory, too.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
We witness the degeneration of a noble mind and an interrogative soul.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Could any film completely capture such a private dynamic? Surely not, but at moments, "The Eternal Memory" appears to come close.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Maite Alberdi's film slowly reveals the personal loss of the ability to remember as inextricably linked to the loss of national memory.
Harper's Bazaar
Tomris Laffly
Get tissues ready to witness one of the most selfless and patient forms of love that graced our screens, shared and magnified through pockets of joy that Alberdi's camera celebrates with a generous side of empathy and sense of humor.
Variety
Guy Lodge
This insistent parallel between individual and national consciousness never culminates in quite the rhetorical kicker Alberdi seems to be seeking, but there's power in it just the same...
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Most of the movie simply observes them in everyday life as Augusto slowly becomes less and less consistently aware of his surroundings - and of Paulina's existence.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
Outside of the built-in heartbreak in this story, Alberdi adds very few other layers.
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