Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast includes: Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke, Richard Ayoade
120 Mins / 2019 / UK / USA

Starring Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Richard Ayoade, this exquisite semi-autobiographical drama was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2019.

In 1980s London, against a backdrop of ascendant Thatcherism and IRA violence, Julie, a young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with the mysterious Anthony (Tom Burke). She’s trying to develop a documentary project set in working-class Sunderland, a community at odds with her own moneyed background, and also based around a boy called Tony. Despite the concerns of her mother (Tilda Swinton) and friends, she slips deeper into a turbulent relationship with Anthony, finding it increasingly hard to discern fact from fiction.

It is a really gorgeous film – nostalgic, melancholy, specific and incredibly intimate, and shot and conceived in a way that feels like Hogg is taking you into her private confidence as she navigates the confusions of her younger self (or a version of it). It’s also a calling card for Swinton Byrne, who gives a truly star-making performance as Julie – an awkward, diffident, yet passionate young woman investigating love, class, creativity and her place in the world.

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