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Bookmark this pageReprise (2006)
Director: Joachim Trier
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From Time Out London
A bright, thoughtful, confidently directed and showcase-y debut with acceptably pretentious nouvelle vague-style nods to literary and cinematic precursors from young Norwegian director-co-writer Trier. This being Volvo-land, the protagonists are, of course, middle-class; split between the privileged Oslo west-siders – notably our two aspirant novelist ‘heroes’, successful Erik (Kloumen-Høiner) and his neurotic buddy Philip (Danielsen Lie) – and the ‘underestimated bourgeois retards’ of the east. It’s a by-turns flip and searching rites-of-passage drama that deals entertainingly with the rivalries, doubts, fears and sexual entanglements of its contrasted pair and the wider wentysomething milieu, made with an entertaining, ‘lets-try-it’ new wave shooting style, jigsaw-construction and sure feel for mise-en-scéne.Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1933: September 5-11 2007
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- Hannah Briggs said...
- Posted on Sep 05 2007 18:36 Don't see why it only gets three stars after a good review. I saw this at the London Film Festival last year and the audience loved it. Great that intelligent, but fun, films like this get a proper release in the UK.
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- Guy Polster said...
- Posted on Aug 20 2007 19:12 Compelling film from an exciting new talent
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Cast & crew
Director: Joachim Trier
Producer: Karin Julsrud
Cast: Espen Klouman-Høiner, Anders Danielsen, Viktoria Winge, Henrik Elvestad, Christian Rubeck, Odd Magnus Williamson, Rebekka Karijord, Henrik Mestad, Pål Stokka, Sigmund Sæverud full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Rated: 15
Duration: 107 mins
UK Release: Sep 7 2007
US Release: Sep 8 2006
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