Sohil Vaidya

I haven’t seen a pretensious film like this I decades. I am a huge sucker for slow burning art house films but this film was just bad. It had mediocre cinematography, amateurish direction from a well know director, performances felt contrived(felt like they were told to speak in low voices), dialogues were pretensious, gashh screenplay felt like it had been developed in a film school with bunch of film nerds giving self indulgent notes. It’s sad that today’s critics are so mediocre, they just jump on the bandwagon and write agenda driven reviews. A known reviewer writers a good review and bunch of amateurs just cheerlead for him with their reviews. There are many films like Andrei Rublev or Burning that I didn’t fully grasp in the first viewing and appreciated more in second go but there was something about them which felt real and true. I felt I needed more understanding about culture, or political scenarios. With The Souvenir, I totally understood the film in first go and I thought it was aweful.