Notes on…

The Souvenir: Part II(2021)

Dir. Directed by Joanna Hogg


The absence of Anthony, who seemed both clearly doomed but was in his theater so magnetic […] leaves Part II somewhat drained. But perhaps counterintuitively, the film’s uneven texture is intriguing and oddly cheering. More than anything else, the film is striking as a document of an artist in the midst of change.

Victoria Uren (n+1)

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Synopsis: In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.