The Souvenir / Be Natural

June 25, 2019 00:04:48
The Souvenir / Be Natural
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The Souvenir / Be Natural

Jun 25 2019 | 00:04:48

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Show Notes

English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B. Green’s documentary Be Natural tells the fascinating story of one of cinema’s greatest pioneers, Alice Guy-Blaché. A feminist film, in my view, is a film that completely foregrounds the experience of women. This is the case with an extraordinary new picture from English writer-director Joanna Hogg called The Souvenir. Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a London film student who wants to make her first feature about a boy in a working class town suffering economic hardship. When…

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