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Watch the trail­er for The Sou­venir, Joan­na Hogg’s mem­oir of passion

19 Feb 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

Two young people, a man and a woman, sitting close together and holding hands in an intimate moment.
Two young people, a man and a woman, sitting close together and holding hands in an intimate moment.
Hon­or Swin­ton Byrne and her moth­er Til­da star in the crit­i­cal­ly-laud­ed drama.

At this year’s Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val, crit­ics were going Hogg-wild; that is to say, they were beside them­selves with adu­la­to­ry praise for The Sou­venir, a heartrend­ing new work of dra­ma­tized mem­oir from less-than-pro­lif­ic mas­ter Joan­na Hogg. Here at LWLies we were no excep­tion.

The gen­er­al pub­lic will get their first notion of what all the fuss is about from the new­ly released trail­er, a gen­tle mon­tage of domes­tic dishar­mo­ny cap­tured with strik­ing beau­ty. (The most beau­ti­ful shot being, of course, the pull-quote from the e‑pages of this fine publication.)

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Hon­or Swin­ton Byrne occu­pies the cen­tral role of Julie, a film stu­dent from a well-off Knights­bridge fam­i­ly get­ting her cre­ative bear­ings dur­ing the ​’80s. A tumul­tuous rela­tion­ship with a mag­net­ic yet untrust­wor­thy fel­low named Antho­ny (Tom Burke) threat­ens her fledg­ling career as an artist, however.

This rela­tion­ship and its dele­te­ri­ous effects cause con­cern for Julie’s moth­er, played by none oth­er than Hon­or Swin­ton Byrne’s actu­al moth­er, who is her­self none oth­er than Til­da Swinton.

The film’s suc­cess at Sun­dance has gone through all the rites of an inde­pen­dent fes­ti­val favorite: a big dis­tri­b­u­tion buy, hope­ful if pre­ma­ture awards spec­u­la­tion, news of an impend­ing sequel. Now, all that’s left is for reg­u­lar peo­ple to like it.

The Sou­venir comes to US the­aters on 17 May. 

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