There are many movies about making movies, far fewer about film school. Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (the first in a diptych--part two is supposed to shoot this summer) grounds itself in the early ’80s at the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS), where Hogg herself went to school. It was there that she experienced a tumultuous relationship, dramatized here as the story of clean-living Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), a student who falls for Anthony (Tom Burke) after they meet at a par...
"Arrogance and Confidence Comes with Film School and That Age": Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir, Shooting 16mm and Film School
Filmmaker Magazine - 15 May 2019 23:42
There are many movies about making movies, far fewer about film school. Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (the first in a diptych--part two is supposed to shoot this summer) grounds itself in the early ’80s at the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS), where Hogg herself went to school. It was there that she experienced a tumultuous relationship, dramatized here as the story of clean-living Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), a student who falls for Anthony (Tom Burke) after they meet at a par...
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