A kinetic delight, Reprise comes from director Joachim Trier, born in Denmark but raised in Oslo, Norway, and it's a highlight of the filmgoing year so far.
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05/22/08
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
The personal nature of such a film begets the feeling of ownership, especially for the twentysomethings out there. It's about revolting from everything, even revolution.
05/19/08
They really get the young writers and that enthusiasm, but then also that heartbreak.
05/19/08
Charming, clever and well made, Norway’s Reprise employs just the right kind of meta.
05/16/08
An intelligent and occasionally profound portrait of a pair of artists as young men.
05/16/08
As crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne.
05/16/08
Trier's intent is to reproduce a sweet, hazy vision of the agony of youth. Ever so elliptically, he succeeds.
05/16/08
[A] hilarious, smart and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama.
05/16/08
It's a fine film by any standard, on any scale.
05/16/08
A rich and touching exploration of the vagaries of fortune, literary reputation and, above all, friendship that works on several levels at once.
05/16/08
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.
05/16/08
Top CriticThe 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.
05/16/08
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.
05/16/08
A Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave.
05/16/08
The picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic.
05/16/08
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.
05/15/08
Strikes universal chords strong enough to break down cinematic language barriers.
05/15/08
[Director Joachim Trier] captures, in a way that's cool and romantic and heady, the moment in life when nothing matters more than ideas, influences and the possibility of shaping one's life into a work of art.
05/15/08
Top CriticLike his subjects, Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier is young and bursting with ambition
05/15/08
...owes more than a nod to Tom Tykwer's fate-bending fairy tale, "Run Lola Run," with its narrated 'what if' and flight of fancy' scenarios which continually spin off the main action.
05/15/08
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