“The Souvenir” is one of my favorite movies of the year so far, but I almost want to keep it a secret. A direct message like this, beamed from another person’s sensibility into your own sensorium, isn’t meant to be shared. “The Souvenir” feels like a whispered confidence, an intimate disclosure that shouldn’t be betrayed because it isn’t really yours. There’s an interesting paradox here: a movie that feels like it was meant for you alone and also like none of your business. (Julie’s mother, played by Byrne’s real-life mother, Tilda Swinton, persists in supposing otherwise.)

Source: New York Times May 16, 2019 17:29 UTC