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Bookmark this pageThe Memory Thief (2007)
Director: Gil Kofman
Movie review
From Time Out New York
An inventive indie character study of an O.C. toll-taker (Webber) in his twenties who develops an unhealthy identification with Holocaust survivors, The Memory Thief plays like The Man in the Glass Booth in reverse, or maybe The King of Comedy with a sense of history. The movie is forcefully told, thoughtfully composed, effortlessly acted and depressing as hell, but its point—that glomming onto the pain of others is, as one of the protagonist’s stalkees puts it, “a cheap man’s empathy”—packs a subtle punch.Author: Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York Issue 658: May 8-14, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Gil Kofman
Cast: Mark Webber, Rachel Miner, Jerry Adler full cast
Duration: 95 mins
US Release: May 9 2008
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