Joachim Trier – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD – Review by Diane Carson

February 14, 2022February 17, 2022 Diane Carson Anders Danielsen Lie, Joachim Trier, norwegian films, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

Joachim Trier’s new film has the intriguing, tantalizing title of The Worst Person in the World. Surprisingly, that person is not a psychopath or an abusive victimizer but Julie, almost thirty years old, struggling erratically to find her way in today’s Oslo, trying out sequential career paths while with boyfriend Aksel who creates the underground comic called Bobcat.

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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD – Review by Susan Granger

February 9, 2022February 12, 2022 Susan Granger Anders Danielsen Lie, Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Kasper Tuxen, norwegian films, Oscars 2022, Renate Reinsve

This turgid romantic melodrama from Norway became one of the top contenders for Best International Feature of 2021 – after Vanity Fair and The Atlantic declared it the Best Movie of the Year. To say capricious twentysomething Julie (Renate Reinsve) is confused is an understatement. Divided into 12 tedious chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, her story begins as she’s impetuously quitting medical school because she finds it too much like carpentry.