Synopsis
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Cast
- Honor Swinton ByrneJulie
- Tom BurkeAnthony
- Tilda SwintonRosalind
- Richard AyoadePatrick
- Ariane LabedGarance
- Jaygann AyehMarland
- Jack McMullenJack
- Chyna Terrelonge VaughanTamara
- Tosin ColePhil
- Hannah Ashby WardTracey
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
The Souvenir is an artefact in the highest auteur register. Its absence of tonal readability is a challenge. But there is also a cerebrally fierce, slow-burn passion in its austere, unemphasised plainness. - 100
IndieWire
It may have taken Hogg several decades to realize that her own box of darkness was actually a beautiful gift, but she unwraps it with the care and tenderness of someone who understands its true value. - 100
Los Angeles Times
If The Souvenir seems to move assuredly to its own unconventional rhythms, it’s because Hogg isn’t telling a straightforward story; she’s showing us, piecemeal, how an artist’s sensibility comes into being. - 100
The Playlist
Survived pain arises as both a vehicle for growth and catalyst for the revaluation of one’s impetus in Joanna Hogg’s introspectively awe-inspiring stroke of virtuosity The Souvenir. - 100
Screen Daily
This portrait of the artist as a young film-maker will certainly stand the test of time. - 100
Variety
Achingly well-observed in its study of a young artist inspired, derailed and finally strengthened by a toxic relationship, it is at once the coming-of-age story of many women and a specific creative manifesto for one of modern British cinema’s most singular writer-directors. - 100
TheWrap
The result is the best kind of fine art: heartbreaking, sophisticated and deeply cinematic all at once. - 91
The Film Stage
Hogg’s earlier films are striking in their picturesque abstractness as we sit in on conversations from a distance, but the ambition and warmth on display in The Souvenir makes this her greatest achievement.
