THE SOUVENIR
“YOU’RE LOST. AND YOU’LL ALWAYS BE LOST.”
Directed by JOANNA HOGG
Starring HONOR SWINTON BYRNE, TOM BURKE, TILDA SWINTON
Released 30 AUGUST
Since her 2007 debut feature , Joanna Hogg has built a reputation for her well-met explorations of feckless upper echelon ennui – comedian Stewart Lee, in one of his stand-up shows, described her 2010 family drama as “an art film about middle-class people on a disappointing holiday”. On the surface these films seem ominously specific, relating to the unique problems of the quietly comfortable, but Hogg’s gift as a filmmaker and storyteller is how these intimate scenarios – wry inspections of how the other
