A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Honor Swinton Byrne
Julie
Tom Burke
Anthony
Tilda Swinton
Rosalind
Richard Ayoade
Patrick
Ariane Labed
Garance
Jaygann Ayeh
Marland
Jack McMullen
Jack
Chyna Terrelonge Vaughan
Tamara
Tosin Cole
Phil
Hannah Ashby Ward
Tracey
Director
Joanna Hogg
Tagline
"The past never stays in focus."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$2,087,678
Production
BBC Film, BFI, JWH Films, Sikelia Productions
ddotleugim
May 25, 2019
masterpiece
SWITCH.
August 10, 2019
Even in the writing of this review, I continue to toss ‘The Souvenir’ around in my mind. I left the cinema disappointed and frustrated by it, wishing it had let me in more instead of simply presenting itself to me, but a friend had told me that it is a film that grows on you. I think they may have been right. The more I interrogate Joanna Hogg’s film, just as Joanna Hogg interrogates her own life,...
CinemaSerf
March 27, 2022
I am not quite sure what Joanna Hogg was trying to achieve here. The depressing inevitability of the film's conclusion left by little jeopardy with the plot. The performances were fine, but nothing more - and the manipulative toxicity of Anthony's (Tom Burke) behaviour towards Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) isn't developed anywhere near enough. The film does look good, though!
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