The Worst Person in the World

Started by WorldForgot, November 11, 2021, 12:10:50 PM

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WorldForgot



Quote"For a long time I have wanted to make a film about love. One that goes a bit deeper than normal onscreen love stories, where everything is so simple, the stories so clearcut, the feelings so admirably unambiguous. A film that will look seriously at the difficulties of meeting someone when you're struggling to figure out your own life; at how irresolute and uncertain even the most rational and otherwise self-confident people can become when they fall in love; and how complicated it is, even for romantics, when they actually get what they have been dreaming about."

–  Joachim Trier

The third film in Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy is a comic drama about love in our time and about having all the opportunities in life, but still feeling like the worst person in the world.

Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD examines one woman's quest for love and meaning in the modern world. Fluidly told in twelve chapters, the film features a breakout performance by Cannes Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve as she explores new professional avenues and embarks on relationships with two very different men (Anders Danielsen Lie and Herbert Nordrum) in her search for happiness and identity.

Robyn

Ah, nice!

Didn't know about this, actually

Axolotl

Thanks WF! Trier is only really good when he's working with Eskil Vogt so I have high hopes for this.

Yes

This is a delightful movie. Some comparisons will be made to Frances Ha but they're reductive and wrong. There's a bit of Fleabag with its caustic humor but film builds towards a dramatic catharsis that highlights the importance of actual communication and presence and exposes the futility of planning the future. A movie about physical and non-physical objects

WorldForgot

A delight, indeed! Great finale to the Oslo trilogy. With some plot circumstances that bookend Reprise well.

Lacan's theory of desire, illustrated as an optimistic story of loving subject and object. It's funnier than I had expected, and I totally wish I could have caught it in the cinema for certain sequences that would have totally moved me in an environment of pure immersion.

Typical to Joachim Trier, humanist ideal, our characters here are allowed to ~ be ~ without judgement, and its needledrops and emotion feel truthful to contemporary attitudes of youthful sorrow and catharsis. A film that feels like a friend.

polkablues

This movie made me remember I love movies.
My house, my rules, my coffee

Kal

I heard PTA and Ben Stiller both mention this film as one of their recent favorites, so I was very curious to watch. I really enjoyed it. Simple, yet smart, authentic, funny, thoughtful. I haven't seen Trier's other films so now I absolutely will.

WorldForgot

Quote from: Kal on July 20, 2022, 12:18:19 PMI heard PTA and Ben Stiller both mention this film as one of their recent favorites, so I was very curious to watch. I really enjoyed it. Simple, yet smart, authentic, funny, thoughtful. I haven't seen Trier's other films so now I absolutely will.

Hell yes!! The rest of the Oslo trilogy is very affecting. I thought Louder Than Bombs was emotionally interesting but its filmmaking was a tad too understated for me.