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LWLIES 80 THE SOUVENIR ISSUE
Exhibition • Revisited versions of ‘The Souvenir’, painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1775–1778).
THE SOUVENIR • In her most personal and provocative film to date, Joanna Hogg explores her own memories to create a fragile, fascinating portrait of romance in both bloom and decay.
THE ART OF VULNERABILITY • For her miraculous fourth feature, The Souvenir, writer/director Joanna Hogg exhumes a tragic formative relationship with the help of leading lady Honor Swinton Byrne. We meet them both to discuss diaries, memories and the life-changing qualities of making art.
LIFE REWIRED • For our latest creative brief, in partnership with the Barbican, we set our readers the challenge of reimagining their favourite movie star with a sci-fi twist. The standard of the entries was the highest for any creative brief we’ve ever run – the top prize going to Joseph Joyce for his eye-catching portrait of a cyborg-enhanced Samuel L Jackson.
MAJOR TOM • The British stage and screen actor describes getting into the character of enigmatic lothario Anthony and channelling his curiosities for a career-making role in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir.
EXHIBITION 100 MOULD-BREAKING BRITISH FILMS
OBSESSION!
Jim Jarmusch • Akron’s finest chats riffing on Romero and fearing for our future in The Dead Don’t Die.
The Dead Don’t Die
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bait
Animals
In Fabric
Peter Strickland • The arch genre manipulator channels his nostalgia for 1970s Britain into his latest, In Fabric.
Knife + Heart
Transit
Apollo 11
Leto
The Chambermaid
Amin
Emmanuelle Devos • An audience with French cinema royalty and the star of Philippe Faucon’s stirring drama, Amin.
Support the Girls
Pain and Glory
Varda by Agnès
Our Time
Carlos Reygadas • Our Time is about an artist losing his grasp on life and love. We ask its creator if those who create art are all-seeing creatures.
Hail Satan?
Only You
Blinded by the Light
Home ENTS
Cannes • The top tep cuts from one of the strongest Cannes Film Festivals in recent years.
Little White Lies