Diary entries forThe Souvenir
The Souvenir
Gulped down both parts in one go. Prismatically personal! DEVOURING THIS. And then the further layering of both Swintons playing mother-daughter roles? I love it I love it I love it I love it I-- love how in Part II the film friend Julie casts to play herself echoes so much of it, expressing trouble trying to insert herself into Julie's frame of reference; "I don't understand" "How could you not talk about this?" "Why would you not deal with this?" No no she's right! They really are the kind of questions that can simmer on that anguished back-burner for 30 some odd years, sometimes resulting in the film-within-film-within-films I'm such a sucker for today. <3
The Souvenir
Menos uma história de amor da maneira que foi vendido no trailer e no material de divulgação, e mais um ensaio melancólico sobre essas imagens sequenciais que ocasionam memórias dolorosas. Tempo e espaço se confundem em cada transição, onde a montagem se assume como dispositivo fundamental na fluidez dessas lembranças desordenadas. Somos guiados pela candura dos gestos, dos olhares, a angústia de um ciclo vicioso, a tristeza de um instante ou a efemeridade das coisas em cena. A decupagem da Joanna Hogg é inundada por um esvaziamento existencial, sobrecarregada de constante dor. Voltar ao passado exige muito e não queremos ver tudo.
The Souvenir
Pretty weird but relatable falling in love with Honor (daughter) and Tilda (mother) in the same movie. I'm ready for the second part.
The Souvenir
I’m just gonna call a spade a spade - The Souvenir is one of the best films of the decade 🤷🏼♂️
The Souvenir
The Year is 2019: Ranked and (Possibly) Reviewed (https://boxd.it/3O8aw) An ideology of pristine love, fidelity, and happiness. The turning pages inside a young woman's faithfulness that is skewed by an older partner who's in the midst of secrecy and a heroin addiction. Yet, he listens, he converses, he tends to her—she feels it in her bones to cherish those good things. Like this year's Midsommar, The Souvenir wants the audience to feel like themselves are a part of the relationship portrayed—through the emotions of denial, fear, and pain; this one is the more subdued and, in a sense, merrier. Joanna Hogg takes viewers step-by-step through the rugged connection of two partners, empty of uneasy arguments and instead exploring the anxiety and faithfulness that goes about. Both shot and acted exquisitely, The Souvenir is indeed a sophisticated triumph. 4.0/5
The Souvenir
- i think this particular viewing was a lot more effective than my first. - i don't know if i focused more on the performances, or the relationships themselves--julie's perseverance through anthony's faults; rosalind staying closer to julie near anthony's end--i'm not sure. - i was just a lot more invested this time.
The Souvenir
It's 2019's Phantom Thread with the same soothing film grains, the grace of the camera, the stillness of cold England. This definitely feels like a thesis film you put out just before you finish your MFA, with odd cuts to mistake for edgy film techniques, out-of-place sound-mixing to keep us from falling asleep to the drab pace of the film. It's hard to see how and why Julie loves Anthony. There didn't seem to be some anchoring moment, gesture, or word that should or would keep her. Or even an ounce of an anchor. Why she stays reveals the strength of her heart, but I have to question a heart that loves to sit so closely to hurt unless it's a first love. I've only known relationships between Julie and Anthony because there was a charisma, a charm, an innocence, an artistry that hides behind the actual body of someone like Anthony, but he lacks that as an underdeveloped character, who says very little and does very little in quiet scenes that do very little. And so I wonder if Hogg created a film based entirely out of personal experience without any thought of a potential audience as we sit here, watching, trying to grasp seen on screen with poor subtitles lost in translation. The emotions seem too personal in Hogg's experience to even touch with our own hearts. And that's what displaces our empathy. But hats off to Honor Swinton for carrying such quiet brilliance across the screen. Awaiting for part two for an even stronger triumph.
The Souvenir
The souvenir es una delicada y sentida historia de amor asfixiante donde sentirse identificado es bastante facil, el sentir que deja puede balancear su arrítmico montaje y su tediosa puesta en escena, pero el problema más gran de el souvenir es suponer que el espectador se identifique o podria llegar a perder su tiempo en una conflictiva historia de amor donde el aburrimiento puede ahogarte con diálogos que comparen el querer ser y el poder ser de una persona inexperta en el mundo del cine, el mensaje más duro en el film es entender que las inseguridades sin duda son fruto de malas decisiones que solo hacen arrastrarte en tu vida.
