A young film student in the early ’80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.

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A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. From acclaimed writer-director Joanna Hogg comes an enigmatic and personal portrait of the artist as a young woman, combining passionate emotions and exquisite aesthetics into a lush, dreamlike story of young adulthood and first love. At once enrapturing and mysteriously unsettling—and featuring a profoundly layered breakout performance by Honor Swinton Byrne—The Souvenir is an essential and enduring film from one of our most distinctive and exciting filmmakers.

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Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony (Tom Burke). The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them. However, as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being honest about all aspects of himself and Julie slowly discovers that they could have potentially devastating consequences for them both.

One of Britain’s most unique filmmakers Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated) presents a deeply personal examination of her own youthful experiences in this beautifully crafted, Martin Scorsese produced portrait of self-discovery, The Souvenir.

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Caprice (1986)

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A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg’s graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.

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Because it has no conventional action or schematic story, “Unrelated,” Joanna Hogg’s dyspeptic portrait of upper-middle-class Britons on a summer holiday in Tuscany, is the antithesis of popcorn entertainment. The guests, who span two generations, convene in a spacious rented villa equipped with a large swimming pool and caretakers. The movie observes their leisure activities with a chilly documentary objectivity.

Its focal character, Anna (Kathryn Worth), is a woman in her mid-40s whose husband, Alex, not shown in the movie, decided at the last minute not to accompany her. Business obligations are the excuse for his absence. But in one of their tense, argumentative cellphone exchanges, we gather that they have had a serious domestic squabble.

If you have ever felt like a guest in a holiday paradise who doesn’t fit in, “Unrelated” is a movie to make you squirm. Heaven can seem like hell if you don’t feel as if you belonged there. The hostess, Verena (Mary Roscoe), is an old school friend of Anna’s, but the two have drifted apart, and Verena, who has two teenage children and a stepson by her second husband, is mildly annoyed that Anna didn’t give her advance notice of Alex’s change of plans.

Ms. Worth gives a courageous, naked performance of a lonely, childless, middle-aged married woman in the early throes of menopause who has many regrets. At loose ends socially, she attaches herself to the members of the rowdy younger contingent as they party noisily while consuming copious amounts of booze and pot and refer to people of their parents’ generation as “the olds.”

The first film directed by Ms. Hogg, “Unrelated,” released in Britain in 2008 and shown here for the first time, announced the debut of a significant writing and directing talent. Her more abstract and even chillier third film, “Exhibition,” recently opened in Manhattan. As in “Exhibition,” Ms. Hogg casts a cold eye on the manners of the British upper middle class at play. Except for their accents, these people are identical to a certain class of spoiled, supercilious New Yorkers who exude a smug sense of entitlement.

The leader of the younger set, Oakley (Tom Hiddleston), is the handsome, arrogant, curly-haired son of Verena’s cousin, George (David Rintoul), a macho rage-aholic with whom Oakley has a combative relationship. When their mutual hostility explodes late in the movie, we don’t see the fight, which takes place inside the house, but we overhear it, as do the other characters, who lounge by the pool, wincing with embarrassment.

Oakley, all too aware of his attractiveness, subtly encourages Anna to put the moves on him without intending to follow through. And the scenes of the besotted older woman playing up to this sleek, disdainful tomcat with a desperately hopeful smile on her face are almost too painful to watch.

Both the camera work, which observes the vacationers from a middle distance, and the sound design, which makes much of the dialogue seem overheard, contribute to the film’s air of studied detachment, as if Ms. Hogg were looking from afar with a raised eyebrow. This is civilized human behavior captured with a clinical precision and accuracy.

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Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.

…As much as a downbeat comedy of bourgeois mores, Archipelago is a sort of claustrophobic horror story, set in a place of no easy escape. This is Hogg’s Shutter Island, if you like, although the madness is more discreet, in the English style…

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Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago) brings her distinctly minimalist brand of comedy into the ultra-modernist home of artists D and H. This troubled but brave-faced couple have decided to sell their much-loved apartment, but as the sale begins to inch ever closer to reality, submerged anxieties, resentments and second-thoughts spring to the surface.
Starring Viv Albertine, guitarist of influential punk group The Slits, and Turner-prize-nominated artist Liam Gillick, Exhibition is as sleekly designed and uncompromisingly arch as the house itself – the film’s commanding central character. It’s also a deftly observed comment on the uncontrollable property obsession that characterises modern Britain.

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