
The Eternal Memory
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Paramount+ Roku Premium ChannelAugusto 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.

Paramount+ Roku Premium ChannelAugusto 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.
The framework of a marriage – the shared past, the certainties, even the love itself – is put under unimaginable strain when one half of it, former journalist and broadcaster Augusto Góngora, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. This tender, profoundly moving Chilean documentary is an intimate study of the strategies that Góngora and his wife, the actor and politician Paulina Urrutia, put in place to cope with the attrition of his memories.
‘The Eternal Memory’ Review: A Moving Chronicle of a Marriage Challenged by Alzheimer’s. Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi builds an intimate collaboration with a woman bravely struggling to keep her husband’s brilliant mind functioning. By David Rooney. Plus Icon.An Oscar nominee in 2021 for The Mole Agent, Alberdi makes her directorial hand virtually invisible, observing her subjects from a discreet distance that allows them to be narrators of their own story while never speaking directly to the camera.