Drama, Romance

THE SOUVENIR PART II

2021
1 HR, 46 min
DEC 10 → DEC 23

Details

Released October 29, 2021, United Kingdom

Drama, Romance

1 hour, 46 minutes

A24

No subtlties

Starring

Honor Swinton Byrne
Jaygann Ayeh
Richard Ayoadem
Ariane Labed
James Spencer Ashworth
Harris Dickinson
Charlie Heaton
Joe Alwyn
Tilda Swinton

Director

Joanna Hogg

Film Information

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. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life — a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy.

Full Cast

Honor Swinton Byrne

Jaygann Ayeh

Richard Ayoadem

Ariane Labed

James Spencer Ashworth

Harris Dickinson

Charlie Heaton

Joe Alwyn

Tilda Swinton

Additional Credits

Joanna Hogg Director

Reviews

“The entire construction of The Souvenir: Part II , the connection between its drama and Julie’s student film, reflects an earnest and principled, if simplistic, didacticism about the pain and the privilege that allow aesthetic pleasure to be created.”

Richard Brody

New Yorker

“The best kind of sequel, not merely enhancing or deepening its predecessor but also recasting it in a revelatory new light.”

Justin Chang

L.A. Times

“Ms. Hogg has outdone herself with an even stronger film about grief, self-discovery, the daunting uncertainties of the creative process and, before and after everything else, the mysterious power of the movie medium.”

Joe Morgenstern

The Wall Street Journal