The Souvenir
Synopsis
Julie is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets Anthony. An intense romance blossoms between them, but as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being completely honest, and that this could have devastating consequences for them both.
Our take
British master Joanna Hogg delves into her own memories in this staggering work of heartbreaking intimacy, at once an alluring and shattering study on privilege, artistic creation and first love. With astounding performances by Honor Swinton Byrne (a revelation!), her own mother Tilda and Tom Burke.
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Awards & Festivals
Sundance Film Festival
2019 | Winner: Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic Competition)
Independent Spirit Awards
2020 | Nominee: Best International Film
Life and art are similarly melded throughout Joanna Hogg’s gorgeously melancholy tale.
Kate Stables
August 28, 2019
The Souvenir is a beautifully realized, painful movie that only hits the viewer in the hours and days after seeing it.
A. S. Hamrah
August 06, 2019
The way that The Souvenir oscillates between inhabiting its heroine’s state of hypnotic thrall and snapping out of it to provide a clearer-eyed assessment of her plight—as well as her complicity in it—makes it one of the most impressively directed features of the year.
Adam Nayman
June 10, 2019
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