John Maguire on Film
A sad account of living with someone with addiction and a deeply personal work that touches on something universal, there’s still something blank and theatrical about Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir
Cinema
The Souvenir: Directed by Joanna Hogg, nationwide, 15A, Rating: ***
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The British writer and director Joanna Hogg delves deep into her own life story forThe Souvenir, an impressionistic drama loosely based on a series of incidents she experienced as a film student in London in the early 1980s.
Titled after a painting by the French romantic Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the British ...
