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The Souvenir
2019 EN 120 min
Overview
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Release date
17/05/2019
Votes
287
Popularity
3.2
Honor Swinton Byrne
Julie
Tom Burke
Anthony
Tilda Swinton
Rosalind
Richard Ayoade
Patrick
Ariane Labed
Garance
Jaygann Ayeh
Marland
Jack McMullen
Jack
Chyna Terrelonge Vaughan
Tamara
Tosin Cole
Phil
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Hannah Ashby Ward
Tracey
Frankie Wilson
Frankie
James Spencer Ashworth
William
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Janet Etuk
Lora
Alice McMillan
Elisa
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Jake Phillips Head
Julie's Lover
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Barbara Peirson
Barbara
Lydia Fox
Lydia
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James Dodds
James
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El Pilkington
Susan
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Neil Young
Radio Interviewer
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Steve Gough
Head of Direction
Crispin Buxton
Head of Production
Grace Snell
Dress Maker
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Siobhan Harper Ryan
Makeup Artist
Leighton Spence
Student Cameraman
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Lee Martin
School Handyman
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Nicholas Gollop
Doctor
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Leonardo Bozzo
Bell Boy Venice
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Carla Ornstein
NA Speaker
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Jaz Dalrymple
NA Member
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Peter Hall
NA Member
Estelle Long
NA Member
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James Barrett
Film School Student
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Roscoe Gibson-Denney
Film School Student
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Eleanor Goff
Film School Student
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Ben Hecking
Film School Student
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Pedro Moura
Film School Student
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Calhan Mundy
Film School Student
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Keifer Nyron Taylor
Film School Student
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Tom Rout
Film School Student
Fabrizio Matteini
Concierge (uncredited)
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Jack W. Gregory
Ray (uncredited)
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Richard Tree
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
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Dick Fontaine
Head of Film School
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Even in the writing of this review, I continue to toss ‘The Souvenir’ around in my mind. I left the cinema disappointed and frustrated by it, wishing it had let me in more instead of simply presenting itself to me, but a friend had told me that it is a film that grows on you. I think they may have been right. The more I interrogate Joanna Hogg’s film, just as Joanna Hogg interrogates her own life, the more fascinating questions and provocations I find. Right now, I like the film more than love it, but I said the same a year ago about Chang-dong Lee’s <a href=“/article/review-burning-one-of-the…
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I am not quite sure what Joanna Hogg was trying to achieve here. The depressing inevitability of the film's conclusion left by little jeopardy with the plot. The performances were fine, but nothing more - and the manipulative toxicity of Anthony's (Tom Burke) behaviour towards Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) isn't developed anywhere near enough. The film does look good, though!
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