cinematography
Joanna Hogg
sound
Jovan Ajder
costumes
Miu Miu

cast
Izetta Tollapi

production
Hi Production
producer
Max Brun

The painterly clouds of a Tuscan sky hover above Maremma’s rolling landscape. On a rock sits a handbag. A white Miu Miu Wander bag. Upon close inspection, though, we see it’s dirty, beaten up, weathered with time. What has this handbag been through? And how did it end up here, alone? We watch and listen to this handbag recount its life story, from birth to old age. It’s a life spanning a multitude of discrete socially encoded spaces – ultramodern factory, sprawling Italian villa, impoverished urban peripheries – and a spectrum of owners, from privileged teenage daughter to working class assassin. In this story, the Wander bag is the silent main character around which contemporary Italy teams with joy, sadness, desperation and desire. It is an object that is the heroine — not only of this film, but in many of our own lives.

2025 #29 Autobiografia di una borsetta (short)
2022 The Eternal Daughter
2021 The Souvenir Part II
2019 The Souvenir
2013 Exhibition
2010 Archipelago
2008 Unrelated

Considered one of the UK’s leading auteurs, Joanna Hogg was a photographer and television director, before making her feature film debut with Unrelated (2008). Winning many awards including the FIPRESCI Prize at The London Film Festival, she went on to make Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013). Her next film, The Souvenir (2019) had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Award. Hogg’s follow-up, The Souvenir Part II (2021) premiered in the Quinzaine at the Festival de Cannes. She followed this with The Eternal Daughter (2022), starring frequent collaborator Tilda Swinton and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, which premiered in competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival. She is currently preparing to shoot her next feature film set in Los Angeles.