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.
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Cast
- Honor Swinton ByrneJulie
- Joe AlwynMax
- Jaygann AyehMarland
- Richard AyoadePatrick
- Harris DickinsonPete
- Charlie HeatonJim
- Ariane LabedGarance
- Jack McMullenJack
- James Spencer AshworthWilliam
- Frankie WilsonFrankie
Recommendations
- 100
CineVue
The two-part The Souvenir can be seen very much as one whole, and as such is one of the very best achievements in recent British cinema. - 100
The Guardian
This rich and mysterious film is a real achievement. - 100
IndieWire
As vulnerable as its predecessor and textured with the same velvet sense of becoming, “Part II” adds new layers of depth and distance to the looking glass of Hogg’s self-reflection. - 100
The Playlist
A masterwork of self-introspection through the canvas of cinema, The Souvenir: Part II is a meta epic of delicate proportions that constantly folds into itself and reveals the murky waters that border fiction and the reality that inspires it, sometimes, like in this case, more directly than others. - 100
The Telegraph
Where Part I had a shimmering poignancy as a tragic love story, this is busy and dazzling: Hogg has never made a funnier piece of work or come to us with such fresh provocations. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
The distinctive British filmmaker is at the height of her powers in this semiautobiographical work. - 100
Screen Daily
The Souvenir: Part II is a film to savour, visually and sensorily. - 100
Variety
Though fully distinct in its thematic and aesthetic fixations, The Souvenir Part II abuts its predecessor to form one of the medium’s most intimate, expressive portraits of the artist as a young woman — a mirror tilted just enough away from the filmmaker that the audience, too, can catch itself in the glass.
