The Souvenir Part II
Too Good at Goodbyes: The Souvenir Part II and Joanna Hogg’s Cinema of Memory
By Katherine Connell | 01/04/2022 | CS89, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Katherine Connell Joanna Hogg chases authenticity. Her reluctance to call “Cut,” instead letting a scene’s action carry on via languid takes, static camerawork, and unscripted dialogue, reflects her intuitive sense of how small but telling slips within the typically dull cadences of British upper-middle-class social chatter can reveal roiling undercurrents of feeling. Yet while…
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