Photo: Joachim Trier's Reprise
Sigh. Reprise is another casualty of AMPAS's preference for foreign-language films designed and produced for American consumption. This groovy little film is spiked with an arresting, hyper-saturated mix of sadness and joy, always acknowledging the dangers and wonders of friendship and the strange ways in which our mind works to tease, elate, and sometimes confound us. Director Joachim Trier is always playing with the structure of film, not unlike his characters' attempts to play with words. He first entertains an alternate reality in which friends Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erick (Espen Klouman-Høiner) write books that become cult masterpieces with people the world over, only to then rewind and see what really happens when the duo send off manuscripts of their first novels. Ed Gonzalez
Sigh. Reprise is another casualty of AMPAS's preference for foreign-language films designed and produced for American consumption. This groovy little film is spiked with an arresting, hyper-saturated mix of sadness and joy, always acknowledging the dangers and wonders of friendship and the strange ways in which our mind works to tease, elate, and sometimes confound us. Director Joachim Trier is always playing with the structure of film, not unlike his characters' attempts to play with words. He first entertains an alternate reality in which friends Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erick (Espen Klouman-Høiner) write books that become cult masterpieces with people the world over, only to then rewind and see what really happens when the duo send off manuscripts of their first novels. Ed Gonzalez
