A Passionate Romance, Remembered Dispassionately: 'The Souvenir'
Joanna Hogg's tale of a London film student who falls for a manipulative older man is at war with itself: Hogg's "confessional memoir draws you in, while her clinical style pushes you away."
Nearly every piece of The Souvenir is a scrap of writer-director Joanna Hogg's own life, and yet this intriguing film feels distant. Hogg's confessional memoir draws you in, while her clinical style pushes you away.
A few details have been changed. The protagonist, a 24-year-old London film student, is called Julie, not Joanna. But she's played by Honor Swinton Byrne, the
