The film has the elegant exuberance of a display of indoor fireworks.
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09/15/07
Reprise (2008)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:64
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
Theatrical Release:07-09-2007
Synopsis: As Erik and Phillip, lifelong friends and aspiring novelists, stand in front of a mailbox clutching their manuscripts, our narrator takes a moment to speculate upon their futures. Surely both books... [More]
Starring: Espen Klouman Høiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge, Magnus Williamson
Director: Joachim Trier
Reviews for Reprise
This quick-witted film is likely to be a fleeting presence on our overcrowded screens. Catch it while you can.
09/15/07
Top CriticForm and content in perfect harmony.
09/08/07
Top CriticTwo aspiring novelists in hip young Oslo scribble their way through success, failure, love and friendship in this crafty little gem directed by Lars Von Trier's nephew, Joachim Trier.
09/07/07
Top CriticTrier justifies the boys' hardships with a bright and breezy detour through would-be glories. Altogether he crafts a striking portrait of the artist as a young brat, with the leads showing enough sensitivity to carry it off.
09/07/07
Top CriticStyle is mirrored by content, Trier’s non-linear storytelling (unnamed narrator, imagined versions of events) credibly reflecting the characters’ turbulent inner worlds.
09/07/07
It’s a by-turns flip and searching cineaste’s rites-of-passage drama -- both for the characters and the director -- that deals entertainingly with the rivalries, doubts, fears and sexual entanglements of its twentysomething milieu.
09/07/07
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10/18/08
Reprise alternately shows punk energy, library hush and comic anxiety. And despite ominous portents, the ending is cockeyed optimistic.
10/18/08
Trier is having more fun in the editing room than his story requires and he'd be well advised to spend more time in the deeper development and dramatic elements of his characters.
08/30/08
This story about two aspiring writers in their early 20s has the fearlessness and vivacity of a first novel, and its playful approach to chronology and voice-over narration serves to amplify its themes instead of coming off as a show-off trick.
08/01/08
This is that rare film where a daring style is connected to real substance, and that's an exciting thing to experience in a first-time director.
07/28/08
Although there's no romantic triangle as in Francois Truffaut's classic 1961 film Jules and Jim, it seems obvious that film was an influence here.
07/28/08
Reprise is an ordinary tale of post-adolescent angst that would benefit from a cleaner plot line, clearer characterizations and more intriguing situations.
07/28/08
I realized the movie had lost me when it occurred to me that after spending many minutes with Phillip and Erik, I had no interest in reading any novel that either of them might have written.
07/25/08
... film full of wry comments and textural gestures - Trier mixes film stock and references to MTV-style jump cuts and the French New Wave (Truffaut's Jules and Jim is an obvious point of reference) to the extent that the pyrotechnics threaten to b
07/25/08
Its fresh opening combined with the satisfying resolution in the final 20 minutes help to compensate for a fizzling mid-section.
07/12/08
As auspicious –- and breathless -– a debut as Reservoir Dogs was for Tarantino.
07/03/08
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