Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Today we’ll hear about the new film from Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Part 2, which continues the portrait of an artist begun in The Souvenir, again starring Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton. We’ll also talk about Drive My Car, a Haruki Murakami adaptation from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who is perhaps best known for Happy Hour and Asako I & II. And finally, a strong entry from Mahamat Saleh Haroun called Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, which goes in some unexpected directions. My guest this time is making his first appearance on The Last Thing I Saw: Guy Lodge, who writes for Variety and recently started a weekly review called Film of the Week.

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Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass