A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
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- TriviaJoanna Hogg wrote the script based on her real-life experiences while attending film school in London in the early '80s. Tilda Swinton and Hogg have been friends since they were ten years old, and Swinton witnessed Hogg's relationship at the time. All actors read the script except for Honor Swinton Byrne. Director Joanna Hogg gave her instead her diaries from the early '80s, notes, photographs, and old scripts and films she wrote and made at that time. She was told to improvise every scene, while the rest of the cast had scripts but were still told to react to her as well as they could. Hogg also gave Tom Burke old letters, recordings, and drawings from the man his character is based on.
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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.
- Crazy creditsThe credits end with "The Souvenir Part 2 coming soon"
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Movies of 2019 (So Far) (2019)
- SoundtracksGhost Town (Extended Version)
Performed by The Specials
Written by Jerry Dammers
Licenced courtesy of Chrysalis Records Ltd.
Publishing by BMG Rights Management UK Ltd., a BMG Company
Just five minutes in, I already found the film very boring. There is little story. Even if there was a story, it was told in a really boring way. There were shots that meant nothing, such as the guy going into the kitchen scrubbing, or Tilda Swinton going into the kitchen seemingly to work on the oven. These scenes told nothing, and weren't followed up. Scenes were mostly static, and the contents were very mundane. I found it horrendous.
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- Kỷ Vật
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,036,737
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $78,400
- May 19, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $1,777,486
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1