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OSLO, AUGUST 31ST 2011 Renate Reinsve made her debut with a minor role in Trier’s study of a recovering drug addict.
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Enter Fleabag into your search engine of choice and the Norwegian equivalent comes back as ‘Loppepose’. A far more elegant translation than that, though, comes via this terrifically moving and wildly amusing romantic dramedy from Thelma (2017) helmer Joachim Trier, a conclusion to an Oslo-set trilogy which began with his 2006 debut feature Reprise and continued five years later with 2011’s Oslo, August 31st.
Chances are you are more familiar with the work of Trier’s distant relative Lars than you are with Trier himself, a filmmaker whose best-known credit to date is probably 2015’s Englishlanguage Jesse Eisenberg starrer Louder Than Bombs. Yet prior knowledge of his oeuvre is certainly not needed to appreciate a film whose endearingly flighty hero Julie (the sublime Renate Reinsve) makes Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hedonistic café owner look like a paragon of virtuous restraint.
This story is from the April 2022 edition of Total Film.
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