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'The Eternal Daughter' review: Tilda Swinton haunts herself in a ghost story for the ages

Tilda Swinton is her own mother and daughter in an eerie film from Joanna Hogg.

Inverse

Review: Tilda Swinton meets Tilda Swinton in 'The Eternal Daughter,' a wondrous ghost story

Tilda Swinton, shapeshifting multitasker extraordinare, may be one of the few living actors who run the risk of seeming lazy if they play only one character per movie. Conniving identical twins, like the ones she played in "Hail, Caesar!" and "Okja," are a particular specialty of hers. Even showier were…

Los Angeles Times

Tilda Swinton reunites with childhood pal Joanna Hogg for ‘Eternal Daughter’

As a child, Tilda Swinton always felt like an outsider, an observer of others, sometimes even in her own family. One day at the British boarding school she loathed, she met another girl, Joanna Hogg, who shared a similar worldview. (Another classmate was Diana Spencer, the future princess.)

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Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’

The actor on tapping into his sinister side for Joanna Hogg’s Sundance hit The Souvenir, losing godfather Alan Rickman, and growing sideburns for new film The Wonder

The Guardian - UK

15 must-see films from the Toronto International Film Festival

It was like a muscle memory, quick to come back. That feeling of hustling from theater to theater, waiting in lines and just being surrounded by other people that used to be an annual tradition as part of the Toronto International Film Festival but for many longtime attendees has been…

Los Angeles Times

From Spielberg to Inarritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking

TORONTO — There's a terrifically self-reflexive gag in Steven Spielberg's new picture, "The Fabelmans," that is hard to imagine anyone but Steven Spielberg pulling off. This might not be saying much, since the entire movie, a rollicking and ruminative look at the director's childhood and teenage years, could hardly have…

Los Angeles Times

Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton talk mothers, memory and regret

Filmmaker Joanna Hogg and her lifelong friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton have made their most personal and exposing film yet with “The Eternal Daughter,” an emotional ghost story about a 60-something and her mother on a trip together

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The Eternal Daughter review – double Tilda Swinton haunts Joanna Hogg ghost story

Venice film festival: Swinton plays both mother and daughter in a moving and disconcerting move into pseudo horror from the director of The Souvenir

The Guardian - UK

‘She disappears or goes blank like Garbo’: the enigma of Tilda Swinton

The British actor’s new films show the full spectrum of her capabilities as the most unconventional of Hollywood A-listers

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: The Souvenir Part II, Belfast and the best screen memoirs

Joanna Hogg and Kenneth Branagh join an eminent group of film-makers who have mined their youth for dramatic inspiration

The Guardian - UK

British director Joanna Hogg on the joys of filming memory in motion

The Souvenir Part II is not just a stroll down memory lane for British director Joanna Hogg. It is a powerful portrait of the filmmaking process itself. Although designed to be a sequel, the film stands alone in its exploration of love, life and cinema. Shown as part of the…

Radio France Internationale

The Souvenir Part II – Joanna Hogg’s soul-searching sequel is a triumph

Part two of Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, in which a young film-maker finds her creative path after a doomed love affair, is the director’s most accessible work to date

The Guardian - UK

The Souvenir Part II review: Joanna Hogg’s sequel is The Godfather Part II for fans of posh misery

Honor Swinton Byrne and Richard Ayoade lead a tender drama that never loses itself in metatextual loop-de-loops

The Independent UK

Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘My family could not be more different to the one in The Souvenir’

After her acclaimed debut in Joanna Hogg’s film, the actor returns in its sequel, starring again alongside her mother, Tilda. She talks about her unconventional upbringing and her off-screen life studying psychology

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Personal Shopper to The Souvenir: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Kristen Stewart captivates in Olivier Assayas’s chilling ghost story, while Joanna Hogg’s coming-of-age drama captures young love in all its glory

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