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15 May 2008 1:57 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

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. Owing much to the French New Wave, especially the oft-referenced Jules And Jim, it feels like a young person's movie, connecting deeply to the fluttering thought processes of two first-time novelists and best friends whose lives endure dramatic, crisscrossing twists of fate. Though it can be hard at times to keep up with the restless, scatterbrained style of writer-director Joachim Trier, it's best just to allow the movie's freewheeling energy to take over and explore its subject from a multitude of angles. There will be time to sort out the film's events once it's over. The almost interchangeably handsome Espen Klouman-Høiner and Anders Danielsen Lie star as best friends who harbored...

Scott Tobias

14 May 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

Joachim Trier's mother was a documentarian, his father a sound department tech, his grandfather a Cannes-selected filmmaker, and his distant cousin Lars von Trier, so is it any surprise that the feature debut of this Copenhagen-born, Norwegian-based director has already turned out to be one of the year's best imports? An invigoratingly kinetic punk rock ode to young intellectual camaraderie that's as funny and sexy as it is haunting and sad, "Reprise" knocks chronology and narrative structure on their standardized asses to detail the friendship between twentysomething writers Erik (Espen Klouman-Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie). Beginning with the two dreaming rebels standing at a mailbox about to ship their first novels to publishers, "Reprise" digressively dazzles in the moments long after, way before, and several hops in between as one becomes famous, the other hustles in his shadow, and the pressures of reality bring them

Aaron Hillis

2 articles from 2008