From a wide, overhead vantage, they look almost like insects, scuttling busily across the campus courtyard. Then the camera slowly zooms closer, and one student among many draws the eyes, as surely as Gene Hackman did in the similarly voyeuristic opening minutes of The Conversation. She is Thelma (Eili Harboe), and…
Unless you spend most of your festival rolling the dice on first features and movies by largely unknown filmmakers, TIFF can be a lot like a weeklong version of that expectations-versus-reality scene from (500) Days Of Summer: Over and over again, you walk into a theater with a certain expectation, only to be…
There was no sophomore slump for Joachim Trier. In the annals of second features, his Oslo, August 31st may be one of the very best. Heartbreaking from beginning to end, the tragic drama told the story of a recovering addict attempting to start anew. Few films have captured the desperation of someone trying to press…
Louder Than Bombs, the first English-language movie from Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo, August 31st), plays like an adaptation of some imaginary classic of modern literature, the kind you always assumed was too interior to ever be properly translated to the screen. The film takes a familiar, almost…
Though it received a mixed reception at its Cannes premiere earlier this year, Louder Than Bombs—the English-language debut of Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st)—was one of our favorite entries in this year’s Main Competition.
8:05 a.m. Having learned an alternate route into the city during yesterday’s cab ride, I arrive earlier than usual at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, where the big Cannes premieres are held. Five days into the festival, the red carpet looks filthy.
