Extended Reading
  • Demarco 2022-05-07 06:01:14

    An autobiographical work that challenges the patience of the audience

    In the eyes of others, it is a vulgar love between men and women that can be said in one sentence, but from the director's standpoint, it is a "souvenir" worth cherishing. British author and director Joanna Hogg (Joanna Hogg) Hogg) has always been sought after by film critics. This is her fourth...

  • Jillian 2022-05-07 06:01:14

    I was silly when I was young. All became memories.

    2 stars, a story about a somewhat narcissistic new female director falling in love with a scumbag. The advantage is that the shooting is relatively clever, and there is no direct plot of how the scumbag steals, takes drugs, deceives, and tragically died. But after the incident, the heroine was...

The Souvenir quotes

  • Anthony: We don't know what the inner machinations of their mind are, or their heart. We don't know. But that's what we want to know when we go and see a film. We don't wanna just see life played out as is. We wanna see life as it is experienced, within this soft machine, within this...

    Julie: But the life of Tony and his mother, they're the lives of real people. I'm not- I'm not making that up.

    Anthony: Why are they more real than me?

    Julie: They're not more real than you.

    Anthony: Am I more real than you?

    Julie: No. I think we're all equal in that. I think we're all as real as each other. There's no competition. It doesn't matter that they're not real people. I mean, I'm not trying to make a documentary. I'm just- you know, I'm making a feature film.

    Anthony: Now, are you sure?

    Julie: Yes, I am. I'm making a feature film.

  • Anthony: I can't go into all this. It was an emergency.

    Julie: What fucking emergency?

    Anthony: If I hadn't done that on that day, I wouldn't be here now. I... That's all I can tell you.

    Julie: What's that supposed to mean? You can't say stuff like that and then not... I don't.. I appreciate there are some things you can't tell me.

    Anthony: Well, uh, you know, I appreciate there's things about me that you find unacceptable. There's things about you I find unacceptable. There's things about this conversation I find unacceptable. We're gonna have to meet somewhere.