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. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life — a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy.
“One of the most intriguing films of 2019, Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, is now followed by an equally impressive sequel about the alchemy that turns emotion into art.” – Original Cin
“Writer-director Joanna Hogg’s artistic choices formulate something that isn’t easily explained and is fathomable only in the viewing of it.” – Chicago Reader
“Joanna Hogg’s film treat a young artist’s coming of age with disarming seriousness.” – The New Republic
