Attitude

THE SOUVENIR

- Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Jack McMullen

It’s quite the month for auteur self- portraits. British filmmaker Joanna Hogg ( Archipelag­o) may not have quite as much history behind her as Almodóvar, but this exquisite, lightly fictionali­sed telling of her formative film- school days — and the toxic romance that offered her another kind of education — in Eighties London will resonate with many a creative person who has struggled to find their voice, or the heartbreak from which great art is supposed to spring. It’s a whopper of a breakout role for Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of co- star Tilda, who plays Hogg’s alter ego with anxious, willowy delicacy, while Tom Burke is quite stunning as the seductive posh- boy train wreck who threatens to derail her, too. This is brilliant, wise, intricatel­y layered filmmaking, as elegant and romantic as it is thorny with feminist questions and class politics. Don’t miss it. 30 August

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