The Souvenir

Panorama

"The result is the best kind of fine art: heartbreaking, sophisticated and deeply cinematic all at once"

THE WRAP
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Joanna Hogg
  • United Kingdom, USA 2019
  • 115 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Julie, a young, quietly ambitious film student, embarks on her first serious love affair with Anthony, a charismatic and mysterious man. It is Anthony who takes her to the Wallace Collection to see Fragonard’s painting The Souvenir. She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders to the relationship, a relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.

Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke give piercing performances in British auteur Joanna Hogg's brilliant new drama, based on Hogg’s real-life experiences. Tilda Swinton plays Julie’s generous mother.

Filmography: Exhibition (2013), Archipelago (2010), Unrelated (2007).


  • Director Joanna Hogg
  • Production Luke Schiller, Joanna Hogg
  • Script Joanna Hogg
  • Cinematography David Raedeker
  • Editing Helle Le Fevre
  • Festivals Sundance (Grand Jury Prize), Berlinale, Edinburgh
  • Actors Honor Swinton-Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade
  • Source Protagonist Pictures, London