A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
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The pure excitement of Tilda Swinton's character at the magazine stand seems to rival only the energy gone into making something so playfully beautiful as this
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The Souvenirs Part 1&2 are a two-part documentary about the making of this film.
Watched on Le Cinema Club.
playful & kookier than I expected for how restrained Hogg’s debut twenty years later is… Tilda with the big glasses is so sweetie
The then-unknown Swinton dominates the screen with her playfulness in Hogg's graduation short film, alluded to in the diptych The Souvenir. With influences ranging from German Expressionism to Technicolor daydreams, this fashion wonderland is a sartorial delight.
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just an incredibly fun 28 minutes like aside from this being tilda swinton’s first ever film role (and she’s adorable btw and already so talented, perfectly adapts to the campy comic tone of the whole thing), it’s just so nice to look at like it is completely my aesthetic in so many ways.
this is camp actually
This is a story about a girl named Lucky…
Joanna Hogg’s first film is a rare artefact. However long the search may be to unearth Caprice, the eventual discovery is well worth the wait. Catharsis flows forth from the short which is arguably Hogg’s most visually-experimental film. An intimation of The Souvenir films endures as we can imagine a young Joanna Hogg poised with camera pointed as wistfully as her eventual avatar of Julie played by Honor Swinton Byrne.
The Souvenir led me here but the vision itself is absolutely absorbing. Hogg channels her vision through the eyes of Tilda Swinton who plays Lucky - an avid consumer of the titular glamour magazine. All the frenzy of the fashion world…
When I found out about this film, I knew I had to see it right away. Tilda Swinton is amazing as Lucky, a girl who finds herself trapped in a fashion magazine. Lucky breaks the hot-o-meter and resembles Audrey Hepburn in the B&W sequence. Truly a chameleon and a master with her facial expressions, this would only signal the great things to come for her.
Betty (Emma Comber) was also pretty attractive; it's a shame that she has no additional credits on IMDb.
This was Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School and I particularly liked it, even more than all her subsequent films.
The paper thin satire doesn’t match the quality of glossy magazine. As a cautionary tale, it brings little and feels ultimately unsubstantial. As a piece of visual filmmaking, it’s rather wonderful.
The production design, where a magazine is brought to life, is fabulous. Inspirations are written on its sleeves but this blend of Technicolor joy, German expressionism and ‘80s music video works perfectly for the content.
The look of this piece is just dynamic and exciting, with imagination throughout. Then unknown actor, Tilda Swinton, is strong at the centre, even if her character feels flimsy.
This graduation short is alluded to in The Souvenir Part II, and as a graduation short, it’s very impressive. Perhaps its most notable feature though…
A Powell & Pressburger-inspired 80s pop rock fantasia about Tilda Swinton realizing she's totally fine just the way she is. True cinema.
Tilda in Fashionland
