

The Souvenir
The past never stays in focus.
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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6.1/10
293 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Language
- English
- drug addiction
- filmmaking
- semi autobiographical
- woman director
- 1980s
- film school
- mother daughter relationship
- toxic relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival27 Jan 2019
- Theatrical (limited)R17 May 2019
- Digital / OTTRA24 Screening Room (Double Feature w/ Part II)18 Jan 2022
United KingdomGB
- Premiere15Edinburgh International Film Festival24 Jun 2019
- Theatrical1530 Aug 2019
- Physical154 Nov 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival16 Jun 2019
- Theatrical26 Sept 2019
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)R7 Jun 2019
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Directors' Fortnight7 Jul 2021
- Theatrical (limited)La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival11 Oct 2021
- Theatrical2 Feb 2022
IrelandIE
- Theatrical15A30 Aug 2019
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT1629 Jul 2019
RussiaRU
- PremiereNew Holland Island International Debut Film Festival26 Jul 2019
UkraineUA
- PremiereOdesa International Film Festival18 Jul 2019
Frequently asked questions
The Souvenir was released on 17 May 2019.
Audience reviews
3- D10/10
ddotleugim
5/25/2019
masterpiece
- S7/10
SWITCH.
8/10/2019
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 fascinatin…
- C5/10
CinemaSerf
3/27/2022
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!
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