Watch ‘The Souvenir’ at the Manorhamilton 12% Cineclub

The 12% Cineclub was founded by The Rabbit's Riot Theatre Company in association with The Glens Centre and Access Cinema. It features films directed by women. In 2021 women comprised of 12% of directors of the top 100 films, a decrease of 16% in 2020.
The club meet again this Thursday, March 2 at 7.30pm. The films which will be screened are short film (17 minutes) Circuit Love by Christine Braithwaite followed by The Souvenir (119 minutes) directed by Joanna Hogg. Tickets are just €5.

The Souvenir is set in 1980’s London. Julie (a breakout performance from Honor Swinton Byrne) is a shy film student from a privileged background, who wants to use her work to better understand the realities of the world.
When she meets the older and mysterious Anthony, Julie finds herself caught up in her first serious love affair. While her mother (Tilda Swinton) and friends are concerned about the relationship, Julie remains naively devoted to her new love, even when she unearths an unthinkable secret.
Director Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Exhibition) reimagines some of her own real-life experiences, resulting in a film that explores many subjects including art and memory, alongside those of romance and love. Keenly observed, The Souvenir is refreshingly honest and beautifully devastating.
Joanna Hogg is a British film director and screenwriter. Hogg's style is influenced by European and Asian directors such as Eric Rohmer and Yasujirō Ozu, using extended takes and minimal camera movement.
She takes the unusual approach of casting a mixture of actors and non-professional actors in her films. Her depiction of unarguably middle-class characters has prompted some commentators to see her work as spearheading a new type of social realism in British film.
After leaving school in the late 1970s, Hogg worked as a photographer and began to make experimental super-8 films.
One of these, a film about a kinetic sculpture by artist Ron Haselden, won her a place to study direction at the National Film and Television School. Her graduation piece Caprice starred a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
She shot her first feature, Unrelated, in Tuscany and won the FIPRESCI International Critics Award, the Guardian First Film Award and the Evening Standard British Film Awards 'Most Promising Newcomer' Award.
Archipelago, shot on the island of Tresco was nominated in the Best Film category.

Before The Souvenir Circuit Love directed by Christine Braithwaite will be screened. Lewis, a computer student, works obsessively on his personal computer, Vanessa, trying to lock down a code which will enable the computer 'Vanessa' to materialise into a hologramatcial 'real' being - his perfect woman.
His dreams and reality begin to blur into one another resulting in a dalliance with Jessica.
Book your ticket at (071) 9855833 or visit www.theglenscentre.com