The Souvenir: Part II
DramaRomancesequelfilm in filmfilmmakingsemi autobiographicalwoman director1980sfilm schoolmother daughter relationship
A cerebral, melancholic meditation on artistic creation and emotional recovery, where a young filmmaker processes trauma and manipulation through the act of making her graduation film.
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
