A clever and playful Norwegian film about two friends and their literary adventures.
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05/15/08
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
A savage, funny, tender, tragic and strangely beautiful riff on being young and growing up in a broken world.
05/15/08
That rare debut in which self-conscious formal daring proves exhilarating rather than excruciating.
05/15/08
...both showy and precious.... On top of that, it feels like self-consciously warmed over Godard, with traces of Run, Lola, Run tossed in.
05/14/08
Reprise applies beguiling visual and narrative schemes to a well-worn tale of friendly twenty-something rivals forced into awkward choices as they become adults.
05/13/08
An exhilarating weave of childhood remembrance, projection, literary digression, and impish commentary.
05/12/08
Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn't a close relative of Lars von Trier, but his debut feature film bares the characteristics of an ambitious if overreaching young filmmaker taunting his elders to scold him for his audacity.
05/05/08
Chief benefit of this film with its rapid editing and copious flashbacks is its mixture of levity and seriousness as Trier examines the lives of Norwegians just past their teens.
04/30/08
The plot is pretty simple, and the depiction of the jumbled, impatient world in which the friends travel is believable.
04/19/07
This groovy little film is spiked with an arresting, hyper-saturated mix of sadness and joy.
03/12/07
Effervescent, if somewhat baggy in structure, dramedy Reprise reps an impressive debut for young Norwegian Joachim Trier.
01/27/07
Top CriticA work that's deeper, funnier and more inventive than most indie films about young creative types lost in youthful exploits.
01/25/07
Trier’s blend of genuine coolness, flesh-and-blood characters and a portrait of creative types that hits marrow, however, is a hat trick we’d gladly watch ad infinitum.
10/28/06
This likeable, smart Danish drama about two aspiring writers has some of the arch, extra-dry-martini quality of a Whit Stillman film, including jumping locations and a dry, ironic voice-over.
09/23/06
Uncannily like Truffaut's Jules et Jim in its ability to seamlessly synthesise the heedless energy of youth and its pronounced melancholy undercurrents.
09/16/06
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