The Souvenir Part II

62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere

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. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years, The Souvenir: Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life – a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy. If Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part I played out like an indelible memory of intense love, the second chapter unfurls like the prelude to a dream.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Joanna Hogg

Script: Joanna Hogg

Cinematography: David Raedeker

Editing: Helle le Fevre

Sound: Jovan Ajder, Howard Peryer

Music: Ciara Elwis, Maggie Rodford

Actors: Honor Swinton Byrne, Jaygann Ayweh, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, Tilda Swinton

Production: BBC Film, British Film Institute, JWH Films, Element Pictures

Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Luke Schiller, Joanna Hog

Costumes: Grace Snell

Production Design: Stéphane Collonge

Make Up: Siobhan Harper Ryan

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: United Kingdom

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 107'

Contact: Protagonist Pictures

Joanna Hogg

Joanna Hogg began to incessantly shoot experimental Super 8 films after borrowing a camera from her mentor Derek Jarman. She went on to study direction at the National School of Film and Television and her graduation piece Caprice starred a then-unknown Tilda Swinton. Hogg’s depiction of unarguably middle-class characters has prompted some commentators to see her work as spearheading a new type of social realism in British film. In 2019, the Thessaloniki IFF presented a tribute to her work.