‘The Eternal Memory’ depicts the enduring relationship between Chilean journalist Augusto Góngora and actress Paulina Urrutia, despite the challenges they have been going through together over the past decade. The two have been a couple for 23 years, and eight years ago Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The documentary also speaks of a cruel irony, where the protagonist has dedicated part of his career to investigative journalism, trying to preserve a lucid history of Chile under Pinochet's dictatorship, only for him to start losing his own memories and for his wife to struggle to keep his identity alive. Maite Alberdi's film reflects a diagnosis that seems increasingly more common; a ruthless disease that doesn't care for one's social position, yet one still seen as a taboo subject (like most neuro-degenerative diseases). Lest one’s image in society be jeopardized. After a public life led mostly in front of (tele)spectators, it is admirable how open these two figures are about their struggle. The images of their intimate lives ultimately come together into a eulogy of empathy in the face of helplessness, with the two still managing to hold on to a reciprocal tenderness and a sense of humour. (Carmen Lascoiu)