Reprise

Philip ed Erik sono due giovani amici che condividono la stessa idea della letteratura e della vita ed ambiscono a pubblicare la loro opera prima. Al primo tentativo Philip ha un immediato successo mentre Erik no e mentre il primo attraverserà una grave crisi creativa che lo porta sull'orlo del suicidio, il secondo troverà la sua giusta misura artistica ed esistenziale nel rapporto [...] Vai alla recensione »

“REPRISE,” the first feature by the director Joachim Trier, is set in Norway’s capital, Oslo. It’s not a city that often turns up on American screens, but for some viewers the film will be as familiar as the bedrooms and bull sessions of their formative years. This portrait of the artist as a young man is lovingly bedecked with the accessories of a certain type of intellectual in training: the Bataille [...] Vai alla recensione »

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. Made under the self-knowing influence of the early French New Wave, before Godard discovered Mao and Truffaut lost his groove, the film wears its influences without a trace of anxiety, in part, [...] Vai alla recensione »

For all their emphasis on the youth market, American movies have never done a good job of portraying actual youth. The idea that young equals dumb prevails -- never mind that it's about the only time in life when reading Foucault or sitting through a Tarkovsky double feature is a viable task. What Hollywood tends to ignore is perhaps the central project of late adolescence and early adulthood -- the [...] Vai alla recensione »

"Nouvelle donne" : le monde privé de sens d'apprentis écrivains Nouvelle donne, le premier film du réalisateur norvégien Joachim Trier, arrive en France précédé d'une jolie réputation. Façonnée par une critique dithyrambique dans le New York Times, un accueil globalement positif de la part de la presse anglo-saxonne et une poignée de prix glanés dans des festivals (Rotterdam, Karlovy Vari, Angers), [...] Vai alla recensione »