The Souvenir: Part II is Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir (2019) but it’s not your regular sequel. It’s not Sing 2, for instance. It’s not the exploitation of a franchise. And it’s not as if the industry has run out of original ideas for autobiographical films about becoming a film-maker in London in the 1980s.
Deborah Ross
Sounds ghastly but it’s somehow riveting: The Souvenir – Part II reviewed
Audiences may not love Joanna Hogg's sequel as much as critics because for critics a film about film-making is catnip
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