Oslo, August 31st (Oslo Trilogies by Joachim Trier)
Oslo, August 31st
Oslo, 31. august Norvège 2011 | Joachim Trier | vostEN | 95’ | digital | Cast : Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava | D’après : le roman ‘Le Feu follet’ de Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | 12+
► Sélection Un certain regard, Cannes 2011
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Anders takes a day off from drug treatment to see friends and look for a job.
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« Trier doesn't allow the bleakness of the material to swamp the film in a miserabilist tone, but he doesn't hold back, either, in revealing every hairline crack in Lie's fragile psyche. He writes his hero into a tight corner, but finds a simultaneously graceful and uncompromising way back into the light. » (The A.V. Club)
« A wonderful, melancholy character piece that's funny and tender, and as fresh as a breath of Oslo sea air. » (Empire Magazine)
« Oslo, August 31st is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I've seen. » (Roger Ebert)
