Guest of Honour is an interesting look at how people cope with grief differently and the power memories can have shaping people. Guest of Honour feels like a failed attempt to tame the unwieldy story of a complicated novel. Venice Film Review: ‘Guest of Honour’ Atom Egoyan continues to lose the plot — in various ways — in this hare-brained breakdown of a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship. But in fact it's an original screenplay, which means Egoyan has gone out of his way to create the overly fussy structure, perhaps in a bid to lend the psychologically wobbly drama some weight. Guest of Honour feels like a failed attempt to tame the unwieldy story of a complicated novel. Read full review Guest of Honour is an interesting look at how people cope with grief differently and the power memories can have shaping people. Guest of Honour is good enough to at least arrest that trajectory but it feels overthought and overwrought, as if its creator got carried away and dropped too many ingredients in the pot. Full Review Stephanie Watts The Playlist By Guy Lodge