Oslo, August 31st (2011)
(Oslo, 31. august)
Country: NOR/DK/SV
Technical: col 95m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Malin Crépin
Synopsis:
Having spent months in a rehab centre to rid himself of a heroin addiction, Anders takes a day's leave in Oslo to see his sister and attend a job interview. As he revisits the friends and haunts he used to know, we become aware of a project forming in his mind.
Review:
Based on the same novel as Malle's Le feu follet, Trier's sophomore feature is a confident piece of work, transfigured by Danielsen Lie's brittle performance as the 'far too clever for his own good' boy incapable of investing his energies in a curriculum vitae. The opening historical exegesis of Oslo the city owes something no doubt to the director's own biography. Despite the overdetermined nature of the narrative, foreshadowed in an opening failed suicide attempt, we are just about held absorbed by the predicament of a lost soul who cannot see the point in anything the future has to offer.
(Oslo, 31. august)
Country: NOR/DK/SV
Technical: col 95m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Malin Crépin
Synopsis:
Having spent months in a rehab centre to rid himself of a heroin addiction, Anders takes a day's leave in Oslo to see his sister and attend a job interview. As he revisits the friends and haunts he used to know, we become aware of a project forming in his mind.
Review:
Based on the same novel as Malle's Le feu follet, Trier's sophomore feature is a confident piece of work, transfigured by Danielsen Lie's brittle performance as the 'far too clever for his own good' boy incapable of investing his energies in a curriculum vitae. The opening historical exegesis of Oslo the city owes something no doubt to the director's own biography. Despite the overdetermined nature of the narrative, foreshadowed in an opening failed suicide attempt, we are just about held absorbed by the predicament of a lost soul who cannot see the point in anything the future has to offer.
(Oslo, 31. august)
Country: NOR/DK/SV
Technical: col 95m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Malin Crépin
Synopsis:
Having spent months in a rehab centre to rid himself of a heroin addiction, Anders takes a day's leave in Oslo to see his sister and attend a job interview. As he revisits the friends and haunts he used to know, we become aware of a project forming in his mind.
Review:
Based on the same novel as Malle's Le feu follet, Trier's sophomore feature is a confident piece of work, transfigured by Danielsen Lie's brittle performance as the 'far too clever for his own good' boy incapable of investing his energies in a curriculum vitae. The opening historical exegesis of Oslo the city owes something no doubt to the director's own biography. Despite the overdetermined nature of the narrative, foreshadowed in an opening failed suicide attempt, we are just about held absorbed by the predicament of a lost soul who cannot see the point in anything the future has to offer.