Synopsis
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
The Souvenir: Part II
2021 Directed by Joanna Hogg
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Honor Swinton Byrne Richard Ayoade Tilda Swinton Charlie Heaton Joe Alwyn Harris Dickinson Ariane Labed Jack McMullen Amber Anderson Alice McMillan Tosin Cole James Spencer Ashworth Frankie Wilson Amrou Al-Kadhi Jaygann Ayeh Grace Hancock Gala Botero Byron Broadbent Jack W. Gregory Annabelle Holmes Yasmin Paige Lydia Fox Chris Dickens Anna Calvi James Fox Tom Burke Crispin Buxton
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Martin Scorsese Andrew Lowe Ed Guiney Emma Tillinger Koskoff Lizzie Francke Joanna Hogg Rose Garnett Luke Schiller Emma Norton
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Alternative Titles
수베니어: 파트 II, The Souvenir 2, The Souvenir - Partie 2
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Great follow-up to a great film. I found this film to be slightly more humorous mostly because the depiction of film school really brought me back. Fantastic performances, great soundtrack and a bold look which mixes 16 mm, 35 mm, Digital and Hi-8.
Oh... and great soundtrack.
Watched at The Landmark Theater (Los Angeles)
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film school in england seems like a lotta work. film school in america is mostly just makin a bad movie trailer about a radiohead song a few months after you hear radiohead for the first time
Just stellar. Haven’t seen a sequel like this in so long, so justified as a proper ending to a story and not just a “continuation” of it. Some scenes were a truly affecting in their resonance; I commented afterwards to someone how it’s always a strange but unifying experience to watch a piece of art that depicts an experience you once considered unique. I felt a great hmm after watching The Souvenir a few years back but this second part made me want to revisit it, and I’d recommend anyone revisit it before watching the sequel. Also, you get more Richard Ayoade, so- it’s better!
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Joanna Hogg’s miraculous 2019 cine-memoir “The Souvenir” ends with its posh, navel-gazing, and newly grief-stricken heroine — a 25-year-old film student in 1980s London — standing on the precipice of herself. Her name is Julie Harte, she’s played by Honor Swinton Byrne with the raw honesty of someone feeling her way through a solar eclipse, and she’s following in Hogg’s uncertain footsteps with the shaky confidence of someone who’s seen “I Know Where I’m Going!” enough times to convince herself that she might. She even lives in an immaculate re-creation of the writer-director’s former apartment, built on a soundstage and surrounded by massive blow-ups of the photos Hogg once snapped through the windows of that flat.
Julie has been rattled…
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oh i absolutely adored this. joanna hogg carefully unpacks her trauma and grief in a gorgeous, sensitive and surprisingly meta sequel. and richard ayoade!!
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I want to write about this film more in-depth before the end of the year, but I also want to say a bit now because I really hope people get a chance to see it in theaters.
+ I came away from The Souvenir pretty shaken up, having been sold on it as "about grad school and having a rude boyfriend," which, well, okay lol, but [Dakota Johnson voice] that's not true. I can see why the addiction through line is not front and center in the marketing, but it was for me, at the time, a profoundly... dare I say... it's my Letterboxd, so... "triggering" aspect of the first feature. between this and 2018's A Star Is Born there…
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honor swinton byrne: mother can have £10000
tilda swinton: yes dear
richard ayoade: *duel wields cigarettes*
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A self-reflexive marvel of rebirth and artistic invention. Loved it more than the first.
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A stone-cold masterpiece about a stone-cold masterpiece.
trigger warning: film school
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What do you do with the most cutting shards of glass; broken from a mirror that once contained your self-image at the moment of experiencing its greatest sorrow?
You make those broken pieces into art.
It’s these fragments that comprise Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir: Part II.” Hogg, though, does not wear kiddie gloves in the handling of the parts of her past that should slice through less hardened hands. These are the hands of a filmmaker; well-calloused against all variety of critique and derision. Including, the director’s own.
“Part II” swerves between posh country home and reverberating sound stage. It smears blood on the face of tragedy, and laughs at the pleasure of doing so. Hogg so eloquently captures the…
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