A young film student (Honor Swinton-Byrne) becomes involved with an untrustworthy man in this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama. Co-stars...
A young film student (Honor Swinton-Byrne) becomes involved with an untrustworthy man in this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama. Co-stars Honor's mum, Tilda.
"Between script pitches and camera setups, Julie hosts a film-school cohort party where she meets a mysterious man named Anthony. A few days later, Anthony invites Julie to a grand hotel and asks to stay with her for a few days. Thus begins Julie’s first serious love affair. Ignoring her friends and borrowing large amounts of money from her parents, Julie surrenders to the relationship and prioritizes Anthony’s needs." (Sundance Film Festival)
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"Achingly well-observed in its study of a young artist inspired, derailed and finally strengthened by a toxic relationship..."
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Variety
Variety"All of The Souvenir's brief, lilting tesserae coalesce into a richly affecting whole, an elegy for a lost love and a humble appreciation of, and reconciliation with, one's own early fumblings into adult life."
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair"To watch Swinton-Byrne's 24-year-old Julie - angelically innocent, soft in voice, curious, a touch embarrassed by her Knightsbridge privilege - is to make the kind of immediate heart-to-heart connection with an actor that only the movies can broker."
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Time Out
Time Out"Refrigerated and mysterious: uncompromising, uningratiating: an artefact in the highest auteur register, but a film that creeps up on you – from behind."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"One of the pleasures of Hogg's movie is how sneakily it takes shape, and how carefully it avoids the obvious beats to which storytellers often resort for the sake of dramatic expedience."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"This is an illuminating (self-)portrait of a young artist as well as a mesmerizing chronicle of a consuming, destructive relationship that steadily inches its way under the viewer's skin."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Joanna Hogg has form in discovering talent."
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BBC
BBCThe Souvenir | Details
Award winner- Grand Jury Prize winner (World Cinema, Dramatic) at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
- Runtime
- 120
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK, USA
