Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical dissection of a corrosive relationship built on deception, with Honor Swinton Byrne returning as the young film school student putting her life back …
about a young woman drawn into a damaging relationship with a caddish charmer. The distinctive British filmmaker is at the height of her powers in this semi-autobiographical work. It’s not so much a sequel as a cathartic exploration in which her screen alter ego, played in another performance of startling emotional candor by, picks apart the wreckage of her romance in the wake of tragedy and reassembles the pieces.
Arguably even more original and intensely personal than the first part, this A24 release deftly extracts something real and relatable from the elaborate artifice of the filmmaking process, making amusing observations about both the academic and the commercial sides.