Arthouse sequels are a rare breed, as is British director Joanna Hogg, who brings her distinctive vision to Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight with The Souvenir Part II.
A follow up to 2019’s lauded, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir, it once again stars Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, now mourning the loss of her boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke), a drug addict who claimed to work for the Foreign Office.
His spectre looms large as Julie drifts through film school, eventually making a film about her experiences with Anthony with the help of her peers.
Julie is in many ways a clumsy person: Hogg is not seeking to aggrandize herself in this semi-autobiography, instead showing a young woman who is slightly apologetic and finding her way, yet who
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