Synopsis
The Souvenir (2019) is British filmmaker Joanna Hogg's semi-autobiographical drama — watch it online on iFILM. Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a film school student in early-1980s London trying to make an honest film about a working-class neighborhood she knows nothing about.
Into her life comes Anthony — older, cultured, articulate about paintings, and quietly dangerous. He takes her to Venice to look at Fragonard. He borrows money and lies about where it goes. Julie sees what she wants to see; the film watches her see it. Tilda Swinton plays her mother with a warmth that sharpens the contrast when things fall apart.
Hogg drew from her own past to make this, which explains the film's unusual stillness — it refuses to editorialize. The camera holds on faces longer than comfortable. By the end, the Fragonard painting in the title has quietly become the film's central image. Stream The Souvenir online on iFILM.
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