Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Discoveries from the past with Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne in 'The Souvenir'

    by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019 5 minutes

    For most audiences in the U.S., the new film "The Souvenir" will make for not one but two major discoveries. One is the raw, emotional performance by its 21-year-old star in her first significant screen role. The other is its 59-year-old writer-director making her fourth feature film.

    The film is about a young woman (Honor Swinton Byrne) in early 1980s London, hesitantly moving toward self-discovery and struggling to find her artistic voice in film school. She meets an older man named Anthony (Tom Burke), a seeming sophisticate with an air of intrigue, and soon he is staying in her apartment and they are locked in a tempestuous, all-consuming relationship. Along the way, she gains a newfound strength and sense of self.

    The story is based on the experiences of filmmaker Joanna Hogg and a

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times9 min read
    Fast-growing Asparagus Once Flourished On California Farms. Why Is It Disappearing?
    FIREBAUGH, Calif. — It was a late March morning and dozens of women and men descended on a San Joaquin Valley asparagus farm — one of the last in the state. The workers walked along the furrows, cutting the newly sprouted spears at precisely nine inc
    Los Angeles Times5 min read
    Jewish Voices Struggle To Find Words Of Reconciliation In Face Of Campus Violence
    LOS ANGELES — Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi Sharon Brous delivered her Saturday sermon, recounting her experience at a recent UCLA protest. Demonstrators draped in Israeli flags screamed at students in keffiyehs. The
    Los Angeles Times7 min read
    A Young Actress, An Obsessed Stalker And A Hollywood Murder That Changed America
    The prosecutor was studying the killer's confession, trying to understand what was wrong with it. In her first few viewings of the videotape, Marcia Clark had the gnawing sense that he was lying. She took careful notes. She watched to the end, rewoun

    Related Books & Audiobooks