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Film · 2018

The Souvenir

Directed by Joanna Hogg · starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke and Tosin Cole

  • 1 h 54 min
  • Drama · Mystery · Romance
  • UKUSA
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Synopsis

Julie (Honor Swinton-Byrne) is a young film student at the beginning of the eighties. She fall in love with a complicated and untrusted man called Anthony (Tom Burke). He will complicate her life as much as she can't even make differences between reality and fiction.

The film is directed by Joanna Hogg and it counts for the first time with honor Swinton-Byrne, Tilda Swinton's daughter that in fact, plays Julie's mum in the film. Another member of the cast are Ariane Labed, Richard Ayoade, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson, Jake Phillips Head or Jaygann Ayeh.

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The essentials

Runtime
114 min1 hour and 54 minutes
How long is The Souvenir?
1 hour and 54 minutes (114 minutes).
Who directed The Souvenir?
Joanna Hogg.
Who is in The Souvenir?
It stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke, Tosin Cole and Ariane Labed.
Where can I watch The Souvenir?
In the UK you can watch it with a channel on Prime Video and on rent on Apple TV.
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Cast

Full cast (12)
Director
Joanna Hogg
Writers
Joanna Hogg
Producers
Joanna Hogg, Martin Scorsese

Reviews

All 3 reviews

What the critics say

  • VarietyGuy Lodge A work of memoir shattered and reassembled into a universally moving, truthful fiction. Read
  • The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney Personal and entirely distinctive. Read
  • The GuardianPeter Bradshaw Refrigerated and mysterious: uncompromising, uningratiating: an artefact in the highest auteur register, but a film that creeps up on you - from behind. Read

Soundtrack

All 24 songs
  1. Ghost Town (Extended Version)The Specials, Publishing BMG Rights Management UK Ltd, a BMG Company Spotify
  2. MetalGary Numan, Publishing Universal Music Publishing Spotify
  3. Love My WayThe Psychedelic Furs, Publishing EMI Songs Ltd Spotify
  4. Passion of LoversBauhaus, Publishing Universal Music Publishing Ltd Spotify

Trivia

  • Pictorial inspiration

    The title of the film is inspired by an 18th century rococo painting of Jean-Honoré Fragonard called 'The Souvenir'.

  • Main character without script

    The director gave the script to all actors except Honor Swinton-Byrne. Joanna Hogg gave her instead her diaries from the 80's to read. She was told to improvise every scene while the rest of the cast had scripts to get the effects director's want.

  • Picture of the movie

    The main part of the picture of the movie took place in Norfolk, England in 2017.

  • Reality and fiction

    The flat where Julie lives in London is a recreation of the flat where the director Joanna really lived at her age. The city views seen throught the windows are 35mm projections of photographs that Hogg took in her twenties.

  • Family chance

    It's the second time that Tilda Swinton plays mum of Honor Swinton-Byrne. The first time was in 2009 with 'I Am Love'.

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