A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Julie: Honor Swinton Byrne
• Anthony: Tom Burke
• Rosalind: Tilda Swinton
• Patrick: Richard Ayoade
• Garance: Ariane Labed
• Marland: Jaygann Ayeh
• Jack: Jack McMullen
• Tamara: Chyna Terrelonge Vaughan
• Phil: Tosin Cole
• Tracey: Hannah Ashby Ward
• Frankie: Frankie Wilson
• William: James Spencer Ashworth
• Lora: Janet Etuk
• Elisa: Alice McMillan
• Julie’s Lover: Jake Phillips Head
• Barbara: Barbara Peirson
• Lydia: Lydia Fox
• James: James Dodds
• Susan: El Pilkington
• Radio Interviewer: Neil Young
• Head of Film School: Dick Fontaine
• Head of Direction: Steve Gough
• Head of Production: Crispin Buxton
• Dress Maker: Grace Snell
• Makeup Artist: Siobhan Harper Ryan
• Student Cameraman: Leighton Spence
• School Handyman: Lee Martin
• Doctor: Nicholas Gallop
• Bell Boy Venice: Leonardo Bozzo
• NA Speaker: Carla Ornstein
• NA Member: Jaz Dalrymple
• NA Member: Peter Hall
• NA Member: Estelle Long
• Film School Student: James Barrett
• Film School Student: Roscoe Gibson-Denney
• Film School Student: Eleanor Goff
• Film School Student: Ben Hecking
• Film School Student: Pedro Moura
• Film School Student: Calhan Mundy
• Film School Student: Keifer Nyron Taylor
• Film School Student: Tom Rout
• Concierge (uncredited): Fabrizio Matteini
• Ray (uncredited): Jack W. Gregory
• Hotel Guest (uncredited): Richard Tree
• Dora: Dora
• Rosie: Rosie
• Doctor: Nicholas Gollop

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese
• Line Producer: Lesley Stewart
• Executive Producer: Andrew Starke
• Executive Producer: Emma Tillinger Koskoff
• Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke
• Still Photographer: Nicola Dove
• “B” Camera Operator: Nick Gordon Smith
• Writer: Joanna Hogg
• Sound Effects Editor: Samir Foco
• Production Design: Stéphane Collonge
• Executive Producer: Rose Garnett
• Director of Photography: David Raedeker
• Foley Recordist: Vladan Nedeljkov
• Foley Artist: Aleksandra Stojanovic
• Editor: Helle le Fevre
• Best Boy Electric: Peter Tainty
• Art Direction: Pedro Moura
• Makeup Designer: Siobhan Harper Ryan
• Set Decoration: Rebecca Gillies
• Post Production Supervisor: Gisela Evert
• Casting: Olivia Scott-Webb
• Associate Producer: Crispin Buxton
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jovan Ajder
• VFX Artist: Charles-Jean Boucher
• Dialogue Editor: Ruben Aguirre Barba
• Location Scout: Matthew Winter
• Property Master: Lee Martin
• Focus Puller: Leighton Spence
• Focus Puller: Luke Cairns
• Script Supervisor: Sara Doughty
• Production Manager: Robyn Forsythe
• Casting Associate: Nicola Chisholm
• Producer: Luke Schiller
• Set Decoration: Mimi Winsor
• Costume Design: Grace Snell
• First Assistant Director: Paolo Guglielmotti
• Music Supervisor: Ilona Cheshire
• Second Assistant Director: Toby Hosking
• Third Assistant Director: Jack Sauverin
• Executive Producer: Dave Bishop
• Assistant Art Director: Hattie Gent
• Costume Supervisor: Paula Hey
• Gaffer: Stuart Johnson
• Digital Imaging Technician: Alan Andrade
• Foley Editor: Vladimir Kerkez
• Clapper Loader: Darren Johnson
• Construction Manager: Paul House
• Assistant Art Director: Luke Moran-Morris
• Production Coordinator: Emily Stubbs
• Sound Mixer: Howard Peryer
• Makeup & Hair: Rebecca Crang
• Electrician: Mark Forsythe
• Assistant Location Manager: Andrew Hamilton
• Transportation Captain: Colin McGregor
• Assistant Editor: Mike G.B. Macleod

Movie Reviews:

• ddotleugim: masterpiece
• SWITCH.: Even in the writing of this review, I continue to toss ‘The Souvenir’ around in my mind. I left the cinema disappointed and frustrated by it, wishing it had let me in more instead of simply presenting itself to me, but a friend had told me that it is a film that grows on you. I think they may have been right. The more I interrogate Joanna Hogg’s film, just as Joanna Hogg interrogates her own life, the more fascinating questions and provocations I find. Right now, I like the film more than love it, but I said the same a year ago about Chang-dong Lee’s ‘Burning’, and on my second viewing realised that was actually a masterpiece. I’m not sure the same will happen with ‘The Souvenir’, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, when you ask me my thoughts on it in a year, my answer may be different from what it is now. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ‘The Souvenir’ is that Hogg always intended for it to be a two-part film, with Part II currently filming. Maybe it’s just that we haven’t seen where else she intends to go, what is next in Julie’s development as an artist, how tragedy will shape her as an artist and as a human being. In that sense, despite its flaws, ‘The Souvenir’ may be one of the most interesting provocations in independent cinema in the last few years. The more I think about it, the more I’m keen to try it again, and the more I’m keen to see where Julie’s story goes next.
  – Daniel Lammin

  Read Daniel’s full article…
  https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-souvenir-a-flawed-but-fascinating-act-of-autobiography

• CinemaSerf: I am not quite sure what Joanna Hogg was trying to achieve here. The depressing inevitability of the film’s conclusion left by little jeopardy with the plot. The performances were fine, but nothing more – and the manipulative toxicity of Anthony’s (Tom Burke) behaviour towards Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) isn’t developed anywhere near enough. The film does look good, though!