The Souvenir: Part II

2021

Action / Drama / Romance

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 136 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 4793 4.8K

filmmaker female filmmaker sequel film in film filmmaking semi autobiographical

Plot summary

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.

Director

Joanna Hogg Photo
Joanna Hogg

Top cast

Lydia Fox Photo
Lydia Fox as Lydia
Charlie Heaton Photo
Charlie Heaton as Jim
Tilda Swinton Photo
Tilda Swinton as Rosalind
Tosin Cole Photo
Tosin Cole as Phil
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984.69 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
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984.71 MB
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1 hr 47 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by diogenes-858-449167 8 / 10

Required Viewing for Teachers of Film

Joanna Hogg's script constructs life at an eighties London film school, and captures the era to the T.I was an actor working with Melbourne, Swinburne RMIT film students at that same time. The parallel's between Joanna's story here and the general, dystopian horror Swinburne film students operated under, are uncanny.Despite myself, and as well made as this film is, I have to say it will probably only appeal to a niche audience. It is beautifully cast and executed, and worth watching for numerous reason, but overtly entertaining it isn't.In me, it re-triggered a level of ire toward the hack and snake instructors who nested in eighties film schools. People whose creative instinct, if they ever had one, had long left their being, to be replaced by an unerring, subtle undermining of student confidence, and a bald faced, polite dishonesty they measured would ensure them the longest teaching tenure.You'll see a bit of that in this film.What I didn't see in ' The Souvenir' was any intimation of the effects of that long term poison on the development and wellbeing of would be film makers. It was nice to see Richard Ayoade on screen. He is sadly, accurately brilliant as the auteur from hell.
Reviewed by bluenotejazz-64946 7 / 10

I liked this much more than Part 1

This is much more "enjoyable" than its predecessor, and it's not solely because it doesn't contain the toxic Anthony. I felt so disappointed by the flat direction in the first film, and I was delighted to see more chances taken in this one. There is more life and color in Part II, and some meta moments were really quite surprising.
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