The Souvenir Part II Pulls the Curtain Back on Growing Up and Making Movies

In 2019, A24 released The Souvenir, British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical tale about a young, upper class woman involved with an older man. Their relationship is at times tender, and often fraught. The young woman, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), is also a film student, and allows her boyfriend, Anthony (Tom Burke)—who says he works for the foreign service—to constantly criticize her and even take advantage of her financially. Hogg’s follow-up, The Souvenir Part II, now in theaters, begins not long after Anthony dies from an overdose. As Julie grapples with his death, she begins to metaphorically sober up—attending school more… Read Full Article