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🎙️ EPISODE 238: 02.06.20
While it takes its time to get going, The Souvenir proves to be... quite valuable. And that's a cute opening for a movie review, for sure, but the ideas stemming from the title of this film are lovely and true. A souvenir could be some completely ephemeral trash or something one treasures quite dearly. Watch this movie and think about how those things are connected. This made me wish movies would do more with their titles.
This is a bold film with real depth, but it is told in fragments. We don't really know if a week, a few days, or longer, have passed between scenes. Julie, a young woman attending film school and the surrogate for writer-director Joanna Hogg telling a fictionalized version of her own life story, is in a relationship with an older man, Anthony. There's no real courtship and the nature of their bond is cloudy at the start. I appreciated this. It felt real, as did so much of the fine dialogue Hogg pens. |
Julie's advice upon finding a curious marking on Anthony's arm is to "leave it, let it go away." Much of the conflict at the helm here occurs off-screen or is dealt with indirectly.
Julie purports to be making her student film about a boy, his mom and the seaside town of Sunderland, shown in black and white photos at the onset. She shoots in a soundstage with fellow students. Most ideas
are often better than the finished product.
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