The Souvenir: Part II

Joanna Hogg færdiggør sit autofiktive livsværk om en spirende filmskaber med humor og vedkommenhed.

This rich and mysterious film is a real achievement.

Joanna Hogg delivers an object lesson in how to deliver a follow-up: deeper, funnier, more imaginative than its predecessor, The Souvenir Part II is a filmmaker working at the peak of her powers.

...surrendering to Hogg's slow alchemy still feels like a rare treat...

...It’s a beguiling work from a master of her craft that holds the art of filmmaking in its piercing gaze, and speaks to an uncompromising vision of what cinema can be with a little faith and imagination.

...a playful cinematic memoir that entertains and provokes.

...an extraordinary work of meta-fiction which continues where the previous film left off, and subverts the fastidiousness of its construction to illuminate why Hogg felt the need to make it in the first place.

This is, after all, a brutally honest self-portrait.