Orlando
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The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)

A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…

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The Souvenir
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Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019)

In the opening of The Souvenir, we are gifted some black and white footage of Sunderland, a northern English city, as Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne…

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