Joanna Hogg

Film Review: “The Souvenir” — Fear of Melodrama

June 7, 2019
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Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.

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Film Review: “The Souvenir” — A Painful Past, Plainly Presented

May 27, 2019
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Verisimilitude is rarely a meaningful measure by which to judge a film, but The Souvenir is obsessed with exploring the line between documentary and narrative, reality and art.

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Movie Review: Joanna Hogg’s “Exhibition” — Voyeurism Revisited

August 27, 2014
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Seeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it’s kind of kinky, kind of fun.

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