"One of my favorite movies of the year so far, but I almost want to keep it a secret. Partly because it’s the kind of film that feels like a private discovery, an experience you want to protect rather than talk about." -New York Times. A shy film student in early '80s England (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton, Byrne's real-life mother) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. One of this year's top rated films and a NY Times, LA Times, and SF Chronicle Critics' Pick.
"Clearly stands out as one of the year’s best films: pointedly personal art that somehow manages, in its specificity, to hit on something universal." -Vox
"Like watching a blank canvas become a work of art." -S.F. Chronicle
"Doesn't get under your skin, it clasps your hand tightly, and when it finally lets go, you will feel its absence." -Austin Chronicle
"An extraordinary rumination on memory and privilege while also being one of the most incisive movies ever to directly address - in moral, philosophical and personal terms - what it means to be a filmmaker." -The Observer
"Definitely one of the best movies so far this year." -Rolling Stone
"There is nothing in The Souvenir that's obvious or banal or that represents anything other than a struggle to get something inchoate onscreen in a way no one else has. That by itself is unspeakably moving." -New York Magazine
"A work of memoir shattered and reassembled into a universally moving, truthful fiction." -Variety
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