Who directed Christopher Nolan’s 2000 film Memento?

Christopher Nolan directed the 2000 film Memento. The film was Nolan’s second feature and established his interest in fractured chronology, unreliable memory, and psychologically complex protagonists.

Memento follows Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia who tries to identify his wife’s killer. Nolan presents the main storyline largely in reverse order, while black-and-white scenes move forward chronologically. This structure makes the audience share Leonard’s uncertainty rather than simply observe it.

The screenplay was written by Christopher Nolan and was based on “Memento Mori,” a short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan. Guy Pearce stars as Leonard, with Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano in major supporting roles. Memento is often confused with Nolan’s later films because its puzzle-like storytelling resembles Inception and Tenet, but it is a smaller-scale neo-noir thriller rather than a science-fiction spectacle.