The film reimagines the life of a Miu Miu Wander bag as it moves between owners, places, and social realities. The bag becomes a silent witness to human experiences—love, loss, and reinvention.

A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine.

2022 film directed by Joanna Hogg

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

Joanna Hogg’s third film has been a buzz-magnet on the recent festival circuit, drawing comparisons to Haneke, Tarkovsky, Malick, Antonioni, and Akerman. A well-off, artistic West London couple identified only as D (she) and H (he) find their already tenuous relationship threatened by the impending sale of their home. Through coolly meticulous compositions and sound design, Hogg dissolves the boundaries between exterior and interior, and between architecture and inhabitant. The house itself (a glass-and-partitions modernist showpiece) truly becomes a character in the film, functioning as the couple’s child, mirror, sanctuary, prison, lover (most explicitly in D’s furtive acts of exhibitionism and masturbation), and much more.

With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, doting mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) wants to give him a good send-off, and gathers her family together for a getaway to a holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly. Edward’s father’s attendance is eagerly anticipated, though sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) appears to be there under some duress, going through dutiful motions. Cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) is happy to tend to the family, though her presence causes some discomfort. The holidaymakers spend their time walking, cycling, taking picnics and being tutored in oil painting, appreciating the breathless beauty of their surroundings. Gradually, deep fractures within the family set-up begin to surface. One of the most eagerly anticipated features of the year, Joanna Hogg’s follow up to Unrelated serves as a worthy companion piece to her brilliant and acclaimed debut, as she continues to make astute and authoritative observations on the malaises of the middle-class, extracting sometimes painful drama from incidental events. Archipelago confirms Hogg as one of the most intriguing and vital voices in modern British cinema.

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

2019 film directed by Joanna Hogg