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Picturehouse Entertainment has debuted a new trailer for Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II.’

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years.

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The film is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life – a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy.

Directed by Joanna Hogg, the film stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Jaygann Ayeh, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, James Spencer Ashworth, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn, Harris Dickinson and Tilda Swinton.

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The film hits UK cinemas on February 4th.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on Wbgr-fm on November 11th, 2021, reviewing the new film written and directed by Joanna Hogg, “The Souvenir Part II” in theaters on November 12th.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

This is a sequel to the 2019 film. Julie is a graduate student in cinema working on her thesis film, which is about the events of the first film, during which she had an affair with a much older man who died as a result of his appetite for drugs. As the events unfold, the line between the reality and the film begin to blur. Featuring Tilda Swinton as Julie’s mother.

“The Souvenir Part II” is in theaters beginning on November 12th. Featuring Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Switon, Alice McMillan, Charlie Heston and Jaygann Ayeh. Written and directed by Joanna Hogg. Rated “R”

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"What did it make you feel?!" A24 has revealed an official trailer for the film The Souvenir: Part II, a follow-up to the 2019 film The Souvenir, both of them written and directed by filmmaker Joanna Hogg. This premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year playing in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar, and is also stopping by the Zurich, New York, and London Film Festivals this fall before its release. This is a direct sequel to The Souvenir, continuing the story of Julie, a young filmmaker in England trying to pick up the pieces of her life after a manipulative, destructive relationship (as seen in the first film) ends abruptly. Honor Swinton Byrne returns as Julie, who tries to make a film about her own life, with a cast including Jaygann Ayeh, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, James Spencer Ashworth, Harris Dickinson, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn, and Tilda Swinton. I'm not...

The film follows on from 2019’s indie hit.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to The Souvenir Part II, the sequel to Joanna Hogg’s independent hit drama from 2019.

The distributor is planning what it describes as an “ambitious full cinema release” for later in 2021.

Picturehouse Entertainment’s acquisition marks a move away from Curzon, which distributed the first film in the UK and Ireland, grossing £536,692.

A semi-autobiographical account of Hogg’s experiences, The Souvenir Part II will take up the story of aspiring film student Julie, played by Honor Swinton Byrne.

Tilda Swinton and Richard Ayoade return from the first film,...

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Watch a Clip from In Fabric: "Synopsis: A lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), recently separated from her husband, visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown—which, in time, will come to unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone who comes into its path.

From acclaimed horror director Peter Strickland (the singular auteur behind the sumptuous sadomasochistic romance The Duke of Burgundy and auditory Giallo-homage Berberian Sound Studio) comes a truly nightmarish film, at turns frightening,...

After a long and successful run on the festival circuit, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is finally headed to theaters this Friday, and onto VOD and Digital platforms December 10th, courtesy of A24. The story of In Fabric is centered around a haunted dress and how its influence condemns everyone that it comes in contact with. The film stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Gwendoline Christie, Hayley Squires, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, and Jaygann Ayeh.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Strickland about In Fabric, and he discussed why it was important to use a straightforward approach to the material, the design of the malevolent dress at the center of his story, and the parallels between In Fabric and 2012’s Berberian Sound Studio.

I would love to talk about the idea of In Fabric, because I feel like the concept, if it was in different hands, it could have been treated as a joke,...

Good news for those who are (or will be) disappointed that Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” riff is a rebuke to the florid stylings of Dario Argento’s original: “The Duke of Burgundy” writer-director Peter Strickland is back with another mordantly funny and unapologetically fetishistic homage to vintage Euro-horror, and there’s no disguising its dark lineage. Unfolding like the giallo remake of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” that you never knew you always wanted, “In Fabric” tells the bloody story of a department store in Southern England, and the cursed red dress that fits perfectly on the women who have the misfortune of wearing it.

As much of a loving ode to the transformative power of fine clothing as it is a cheeky condemnation of the consumerism that drives people to buy it, Strickland’s long-awaited new delight might lack the cohesion of his previous film, but “In Fabric...

For obsessive-compulsive director Peter Strickland, horror cinema is all about style — a rapturous celebration of color, sound, and texture, fetishized nearly to the point of abstraction — so it stands to reason that the eccentric auteur behind “The Duke of Burgundy” and “Berberian Sound Studio” should next turn his attention to fashion. Technically speaking, “In Fabric” isn’t about the clothing industry but a single dress, a stunning red formal gown that plays nasty tricks on anyone who wears it.

Patterned after eye-popping giallo films of the 1970s and ’80s — that cult-beloved B-movie genre through which directors such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava crafted high-art imagery in service of less-than-coherent storytelling — “In Fabric” feels like a bespoke homage to those ultra-stylized Italian thrillers, with a wickedly arch sense of humor all its own, and a wicked other-dimensional vibe courtesy of modular synth group Cavern of Anti-Matter. What a peculiar coincidence...

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This comedy farce written in verse shows that custom cannot stale Inside No. 9’s infinite variety. Spoilers…

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In series one’s The Understudy, Inside No. 9 gave us an updated take on Macbeth. Here, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton put their own twist on Shakespearean comedy with an episode set entirely in a hotel corridor and written entirely in iambic pentameter, the clever sods. Regular brilliance clearly wasn’t presenting these two enough of a challenge.

It’s a challenge they pull off with relish. The writing’s smart and self-aware (“Like this iambic foot, I’m stressed, you’re not”) while the gags are a bawdy delight. Shakespeare never rhymed ‘bum’ with ‘Magnus Magnusson’, but you know he would have done,...