I’m sorry to have missed Joanna Hogg‘s The Souvenir, although it was press-screened only once before I left for France. On one hand it’s the best reviewed film of the year so far — 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93% on Metacritic — and it won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last January. On the other my ex-wife Maggie, attracted by the romantic heart element, called it “the most over-hyped indie movie of the year…people walked out saying ‘that was painful.'” And since opening on 5.17 in 23 theaters it’s only managed $253,152. The costars are Honor Swinton Byrne (Tilda Swinton‘s 21-year-old daughter), Tom Burke and Tilda herself. HE community reactions?
