Joanna Hogg and Kenneth Branagh join an eminent group of film-makers who have mined their youth for dramatic inspiration“Write what you know,” students are always told on writing courses, though it’s not advice that should be followed to the letter: fantasy and science fiction would be in a sorry place if everyone complied.
Perhaps the past two years of isolation and lockdowns have made everyone more reflective, however, since suddenly any number of established film-makers are returning to their youth for inspiration.
Even Steven Spielberg, never previously the most personal of directors, is going autobiographical with his next film, The Fabelmans.
Two of this week’s VOD releases, meanwhile, find British film-makers tackling the cine-memoir to very different ends.Joanna Hogg’s inspired, opalescent The Souvenir Part II sees her continuing the portrait of the artist as a young woman that she began in 2019’s The Souvenir.
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