by Joanna Hogg
After the tragic end of her relationship with a charismatic but manipulative older man, British film student Julie decides to process her experience in her thesis film project. Fragments of memories and present-day impressions come together like a mosaic, forming a story about first love, addiction and loss. With THE SOUVENIR: PART II, director Joanna Hogg completes the arc of her outstanding semi-autobiographical work and shows the process of filmmaking as the act of a young woman reinventing herself. THE SOUVENIR: PART II works with or without knowledge of the first part.