The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
Country: GB/EIRE/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 107m
Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade
Synopsis:
Julie grieves her lost love and turns her graduate project into a film about their relationship.
Review:
More pallid ruminations and vacillations from our film student heroine, as she drifts further and further from her Sunderland project towards an apparently unscripted transfiguration of her tawdry romance with a narcissistic drug addict. The director (it is autobiographical, after all) then rams the point home via a fantasmagoric film-within-the-film in which the characters play themselves. The wispy, golden-aura cinematography would seem to evoke the atmosphere of remembrance from the 1980s, but is the ideal cloth with which to dress this anorexic, vaguely allusive piece of film-making, which rarely cuts the viewer in on the deal and whose pusillanimous heroine ultimately grates.
Country: GB/EIRE/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 107m
Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade
Synopsis:
Julie grieves her lost love and turns her graduate project into a film about their relationship.
Review:
More pallid ruminations and vacillations from our film student heroine, as she drifts further and further from her Sunderland project towards an apparently unscripted transfiguration of her tawdry romance with a narcissistic drug addict. The director (it is autobiographical, after all) then rams the point home via a fantasmagoric film-within-the-film in which the characters play themselves. The wispy, golden-aura cinematography would seem to evoke the atmosphere of remembrance from the 1980s, but is the ideal cloth with which to dress this anorexic, vaguely allusive piece of film-making, which rarely cuts the viewer in on the deal and whose pusillanimous heroine ultimately grates.
Country: GB/EIRE/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 107m
Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade
Synopsis:
Julie grieves her lost love and turns her graduate project into a film about their relationship.
Review:
More pallid ruminations and vacillations from our film student heroine, as she drifts further and further from her Sunderland project towards an apparently unscripted transfiguration of her tawdry romance with a narcissistic drug addict. The director (it is autobiographical, after all) then rams the point home via a fantasmagoric film-within-the-film in which the characters play themselves. The wispy, golden-aura cinematography would seem to evoke the atmosphere of remembrance from the 1980s, but is the ideal cloth with which to dress this anorexic, vaguely allusive piece of film-making, which rarely cuts the viewer in on the deal and whose pusillanimous heroine ultimately grates.