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Reprise

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Reprise (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 36  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.4/10
 
Consensus: Effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood. With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched. more
 
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
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 will garner wild acclaim, lead to prolific careers, and inspire revolutions. In actuality,... [More]
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 will garner wild acclaim, lead to prolific careers, and inspire revolutions. In actuality, Phillip's is published and Erik's rejected. But it's Phillip who suffers the harsher fate. Overnight success and a budding, but obsessive, romance prove overwhelming, and he suffers a breakdown. Six months later, when he returns from a psychiatric hospital, Phillip tries to put his life back together, and Erik, having adopted a more measured approach to writing, attempts a literary rebound.

Joachim Trier's debut feature is a whimsical, intelligent reflection on friendship and youthful exuberance. His portrait of two young men for whom life and art occupy the same blurry space is full of honesty and carefully observed moments. And while its preoccupations are weighty (love, disappointment, self-doubt), Reprise is buoyed by visual flourish and an infectious energy. Its splashy, self-conscious style--a throwback to the French New Wave--mixes film stocks, delights in cinematic references, and employs flashbacks, flash-forwards, an unidentified narrator, and frequent detours to Paris (surely with a wink). And with a stellar young cast to boot, Reprise hits every mark, ushering in an exciting young filmmaker.
--© Sundance Film Festival [Less]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Espen Klouman Høiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge, Magnus Williamson, Pål Stokka

Director: Joachim Trier
Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Producer: Karin Julsrud
Composer: Ola Flottum

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The film has the elegant exuberance of a display of indoor fireworks.

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09/15/07 06:18 AM
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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This quick-witted film is likely to be a fleeting presence on our overcrowded screens. Catch it while you can.

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09/15/07 06:18 AM
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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Form and content in perfect harmony.

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09/08/07 05:54 AM
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]
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Two 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.

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09/07/07 03:43 AM
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film
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Trier 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.

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09/07/07 03:26 AM
Stella Papamichael
BBC
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Style is mirrored by content, Trier’s non-linear storytelling (unnamed narrator, imagined versions of events) credibly reflecting the characters’ turbulent inner worlds.

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09/07/07 03:16 AM
Tom Dawson
Total Film
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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.

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09/07/07 02:30 AM
Wally Hammond
Time Out
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Charming, clever and well made, Norway’s Reprise employs just the right kind of meta.

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05/16/08 01:38 PM
Sara Schieron
Boxoffice Magazine
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An intelligent and occasionally profound portrait of a pair of artists as young men.

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05/16/08 12:53 PM
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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As crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne.

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05/16/08 12:52 PM
Dana Stevens
Slate
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Trier's intent is to reproduce a sweet, hazy vision of the agony of youth. Ever so elliptically, he succeeds.

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05/16/08 12:52 PM
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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[A] hilarious, smart and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama.

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05/16/08 12:50 PM
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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It's a fine film by any standard, on any scale.

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05/16/08 11:39 AM
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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A rich and touching exploration of the vagaries of fortune, literary reputation and, above all, friendship that works on several levels at once.

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05/16/08 11:32 AM
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry — for life and meaning and immortality, and for other young and restless bodies — Reprise is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.

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05/16/08 10:59 AM
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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The kind of discovery that comes along only a few times a year (if we're lucky), Joachim Trier's energetic, inventive debut takes such a novel approach to well-worn themes that it makes most movies look downright lazy.

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05/16/08 10:56 AM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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The movie also contains many moments of joy and humor, folded into a fantastic, shifting structure that keeps the film wildly alive. It's an impressive first film.

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05/16/08 10:48 AM
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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A Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave.

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05/16/08 10:01 AM
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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The picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic.

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05/16/08 08:10 AM
Josh Larsen
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The vibrant Norwegian debut feature Reprise is one of those rare films about writers where form matches content, with fresh insights about the literary world coming via a complex, liberating series of flashbacks, ellipses, and other bold flourishes.

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05/15/08 04:15 PM
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
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