It’s hard to shake “The Souvenir.”
I suppose that’s understandable for a movie whose very title refers to the persistence of memory. The French verb “souvenir” means “to remember,” and, in the context of the film, alludes to a painting of the same name by Jean-Honore Fragonard of a woman carving her lover’s initials on a tree.
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