Unforgettable
2020 · 6m
Directed by Sabrina Jaglom
Genres: dark comedy, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
Unable to accept a breakup, a young woman kidnaps her ex-boyfriend and uses black-market memory technology to alter his recollections of their relationship. She hopes the edited memories will rebuild the partnership on the foundation she wants.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A sci-fi premise that weaponizes intimacy itself—the ultimate betrayal masquerading as devotion—and Jaglom leans into the psychotic logic rather than flinching from it. This is the kind of film that makes you uncomfortable about rooting for the protagonist, which is exactly why it works.
Jaglom navigates the tonal tightrope between thriller and dark comedy with formal precision, each scene calibrated to unseat audience sympathy at exactly the right moment; the film understands its debt to psychological thriller tradition while deliberately subverting the genre's moral anchors.
The decision to play the kidnapping itself as mundane procedural—matter-of-fact, almost bureaucratic—rather than sensationalized creates the entire unsettling register; that single tonal choice transforms what could be exploitation into something genuinely strange and controlled.