The Cannes Film Festival isn’t known for launching sequels.
But on Thursday morning, Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” held its first screening as part of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup.
The semi-autobiographical film is a continuation of the 2019 Sundance darling that follows Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) in the days after the tragic outcome of a relationship, as she takes comfort from her mother Rosalind and directs a student film — called “The Souvenir” — based on her grief.“It was always intended to be one piece of work in two films,” Hogg said in a Q&a after the screening.Hogg revealed that she’d wanted to tell this story for years, based on a real romance from her youth, but she struggled because she’d never fully understood her ex-boyfriend.
“I began to realize very slowly, I could do it from my point of view,” Hogg said.
“The two parts have to coexist.
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