A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 37 nominations
Storyline
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- TriviaJoanna Hogg wrote the script based on her real-life experiences while attending film school in London in the early '80s. Tilda Swinton and Hogg have been friends since they were ten years old, and Swinton witnessed Hogg's relationship at the time. All actors read the script except for Honor Swinton Byrne. Director Joanna Hogg gave her instead her diaries from the early '80s, notes, photographs, and old scripts and films she wrote and made at that time. She was told to improvise every scene, while the rest of the cast had scripts but were still told to react to her as well as they could. Hogg also gave Tom Burke old letters, recordings, and drawings from the man his character is based on.
- Quotes
Anthony: We don't know what the inner machinations of their mind are, or their heart. We don't know. But that's what we want to know when we go and see a film. We don't wanna just see life played out as is. We wanna see life as it is experienced, within this soft machine, within this...
Julie: But the life of Tony and his mother, they're the lives of real people. I'm not- I'm not making that up.
Anthony: Why are they more real than me?
Julie: They're not more real than you.
Anthony: Am I more real than you?
Julie: No. I think we're all equal in that. I think we're all as real as each other. There's no competition. It doesn't matter that they're not real people. I mean, I'm not trying to make a documentary. I'm just- you know, I'm making a feature film.
Anthony: Now, are you sure?
Julie: Yes, I am. I'm making a feature film.
- Crazy creditsThe credits end with "The Souvenir Part 2 coming soon"
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Movies of 2019 (So Far) (2019)
- SoundtracksGhost Town (Extended Version)
Performed by The Specials
Written by Jerry Dammers
Licenced courtesy of Chrysalis Records Ltd.
Publishing by BMG Rights Management UK Ltd., a BMG Company
This movie is like being with friends & having a nice evening (The reviews &Trailers for this movie) and then just as you open the second bottle of wine they stand up and say now let's go to the den so we can show you the slides of our vacation to the Kansas & Nebraska Prairie! (The movie starts!) (No offense to the great states of Kansas & Nebraska, but you are flat!). This movie builds no tension between its characters, it does nothing but shows a day in the life of a slick, maneuvering man & a woman who has no sense of the world around her & is a prime enabler. Is it about her blind love for him. Is it about his manipulation of her. Is it about her lack of knowledge of...of...well basically everything. I kept hoping this movie would do something, would go somewhere, would show us something that we could care about (especially regarding Julie) but it never did, it just kept wandering and wandering to the expected conclusion with a closing shot (reminiscent of the final shot on The Searchers, although I am sure it was not on purpose).
As you read all the glowing reviews about the acting, etc. I would say 2 things - 1. All that great acting, cinematography, even directing doesn't mean squat without a script that means something and 2. They said that the English Patient was a great movie too!
- deager
- Jun 18, 2019
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- Language
- Also known as
- Kỷ Vật
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,036,737
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $78,400
- May 19, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $1,777,486
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1