Joanna Hogg follows up her critically acclaimed 2019 unhealthy relationship drama “The Souvenir,” a film which made many critics Top 10 list for that year, with a direct sequel which has launched its U.S. trailer today.
Set to premiere at the New York Film Festival this week following a splashy Cannes unveiling, “The Souvenir Part II” sees the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of Honor Swinton Byrne’s Julie continue.
Now out of her abusive relationship with the late heroin addict Anthony (Tom Burke), Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film – sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, and Ariane Labed from the 2019 film all return and are joined by the handsome trio of Harris Dickinson (“Beach Rats”), Joe Alwyn (“The Favourite”), and Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”).
“The Souvenir Part II” will be distributed by A24 in the United States on October 29th.
