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This film is not worth seeing. The costumes, special effects and a brilliant cast can't save it.

A fairytale for old romantics everywhere, who believe that the weapons of friendship and commitment are as vital in the fight for a relationship, as love.

Feels more like an amuse bouche than a full meal, while at the same time all proving a bit too much.

We see events from Alice's perspective, meaning that, unusually, she is positioned more as the desiring subject than the desired object within the narrative.

She won't marry. She refuses. Is she lesbian? Hey, that's an idea. Let's investigate.

The costumes in The Souvenir speak volumes about female and male desire and the search for identity that garments can encompass.

Hogg has always had an eye for architectural as well as emotional spaces and we see it here, as she floods the large rooms of Julie's parents' home with light, so that she almost seems to be paling out of them, which, coupled with her often silent reactions as others babble around her makes it seem as though she is the one who might be the ghost.

A highly mannered approach, a staccato script and deliberate emotional distance mean that the drama never really comes alive, but the whole thing looks and sounds divine.

An immensely dark, macabre and unsettling work.