‘The Eternal Memory’ Director Says a Filmmaking Error Added Extra Poignancy to Her Film

An Oscar nominee in 2021 for “The Mole Agent,” director Maite Alberdi turns her empathetic lens to a tender, topical love story. Her new documentary “The Eternal Memory” focuses on the relationship between Chilean writer Augusto Góngora (1952- 2023), battling Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife, actress Paulina Urrutia.

The film is being distributed by MTV Documentary Films, which since 2019 has been run by Sheila Nevins, an industry legend from her decades at HBO. And in it’s own way, “The Eternal Memory” (now available to rent on streaming platforms) is an easily relatable and mainstream movie, despite the difficult subject matter of Alzheimer’s.