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*a shot of Isabelle Huppert’s face held for a few seconds longer than usual* me: cinema
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“Again you get the feeling that you’re in the wrong place.” An emotionally detached experience, far from what Joachim was able to achieve within his first two features. Maybe grief or fear can be louder than bombs but my heart was silenced throughout. A work of someone moving away from their native language and crafting something in English, clearly nowhere near as beautiful or as nihilistic. A multi-layered fractured tale about the death of a mother and wife, what it brings onto a broken family of 3 men. Just didn’t do much for me, has moments sprinkled here and there that call for my attention but the characters are kinda unlikable. Explores suicide and the human side of things, as per usual with any Trier film. Forgettable, not dramatic enough, slightly interesting and just lacks what made his earlier works so great. Performances are underperforming too, besides one or two. A decent enough film, undoubtedly, Trier’s worst. JOACHIM TRIER RANKED
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An American Joachim Trier movie feels a lot like a pretty good impression of Joachim Trier, which ain’t a bad thing! Even in a lesser film, Joachim still achieves many sequences of precise cutting as well as moments of beautiful silence. Joachim Trier movies all have a base level of beautiful, naturalistic filmmaking and then every 20 minutes or so they swing for the fences and do something otherworldly. Thats no different here, just less consistent. However, the pee scene is genuinely incredible.
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louder than bombs made me feel like i’m being hugged and getting slapped right in the face continuously at the same time i don’t know any other way to describe it.
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How can this be? A director of two fabulous films follows up with this – a messy, poorly characterised, cliché drama. The premise is fine enough but what completely derails everything are the characters of Jonah and Conrad. Especially Conrad, who’s clearly supposed to be this sympathetic high schooler, struggling with the death of his mum and outpouring his angst into notebooks, all while shutting himself away to play online video games all night. The problem is, he’s not sympathetic at all. He’s an asshole. Can this be excused because of the situation, and/or “because he’s young”? Maybe for some but not me. I love characters with no redeeming qualities on screen, but only when they’re written specifically to be…
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There are days I’m invisible, I can do whatever I want. I must be careful not to lose that ability. Louder than bombs. Perfect title for this film. The quieter we become, the louder we become inside. And losses and truths make as much noise in our hearts as bombs. Joachim Trier’s films are like life. Calm, real. They touch something inside us. In his films, we are watching people we don’t know but familiar feelings. Language, time, place, people, events are maybe different but a familiar, sincere feeling. Joachim Trier makes films for “people”, for things we all have in common. I love his quiet, calm, loud style. This film is about death, family, loss and truth. Two boys…
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Just a couple of random notes: — Isabelle Huppert (with that pure face of hers) and Gabriel Byrne (with that aura of a warm blanket) are great together. Love those guys. Not quite as much as Amy Ryan though. — Dysfunctional families always have it easy with me, and I’m also a sucker for stories about brothers. — Could relate to the themes of grief and disconnect. — More melodramatic than I expected. Thumbs up for that. — Trier’s obsession with suicide, and inevitably his romanticizing of it, is starting to get a little old. — Never thought I’d be moved by a scene involving a computer game. — Adding bits and pieces of Huppert’s character’s experiences as a journalistic…
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Contrived in the sense that I know that Isabelle Huppert would never have kids that boring/vapid and with hair THAT bad.
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“One morning you’re over there doing something you feel is important, but it’s hard as well, you know? You can’t wait to go back home. Then finally you’re there. You always arrive exhausted, having changed plans like four times.” Nerd and asshole Jesse Eisenberg cinematic universe. Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy is one of my favorites. I love his style and the way he portrays different people in the modern world. Even though I was looking for Anders Danielsen Lie, watching Jesse Eisenberg was also very satisfying. The film focuses on the lives of Isabelle, a war photographer, and her husband and two sons after her death. Trier usually tells the story of lives changing after an event in his films,…
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I could die tomorrow. I could get hit by a car, have a brain aneurysm, drown or kill myself. I might not be alive by tomorrow. I am haunted by my own mortality. I am terrified of death yet some days see it as the only way to escape. I could die and you’d all move on. Maybe you would be sad for a little while but I am just some guy you met online a few months ago (or a few weeks ago). If I die, I will be forgotten. No one will remember me because I am not very memorable. What will I leave behind? What did I do while I was here? If I was never born,…
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Not to be fake deep but I’ve been sitting here trying to think of what to write for this and all I keep coming up with is ‘it hurts.’
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this isn’t really a review. there is a scene in this movie that lasts maybe three seconds: someone looks at a photograph, one that the photographer may have risked her life to make and then turns the page. that’s it. nothing happens. and somehow that was the part of the film that stayed with me. i started thinking about the strange distance between making an image and looking at one. someone can spend their entire life learning how to see…
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i always feel like joachim trier movies have this certain honesty about them which always does something to me
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Joachim has such a gift for cutting straight to the heart of his character’s point of view. I could feel that trying to break through here, but couldn’t help feeling like it was just almost there, not quite at the surface like it was in Oslo, Worst Person, or Sentimental. Isabelle Huppert somehow perfectly suited for the role as emotionally distant war photographer while also being kind of unbelievable as a person married to Gabriel Byrne’s character. She remains unquestionable…
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Estoy viendo todas las pelis de este director y hoy tocaba esta. No sé cómo lo hace para retratar tan bien las relaciones personales y enseñarte el pasado de una manera súper interesante y nostálgica. Una peli que para mi habla del intento de estar presente con tu familia, de la falta de comunicación que existe entre padres e hijos, y en cómo las dinámicas de relación se vuelven a repetir cometiendo los mismos errores. Hay escenas como la del…
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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
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I love the how the three men mourn and remember her differently. They all have different memories of her and how they think of her. And with that how they grow as a person after her death are all different. Character arch of all three characters are amazing. Script is great like always.
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Trier does such a fantastic job at drawing out the best performances of his actors. He also is amazing at letting moments sit and simply exist, which is really hard to do.
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sentimental value for boys
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school shooter in the making
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I think if the girl I liked pissed on my shoes; I would cry too. – I think the plot was alright I was just, not that entertained by it? It’s pretty good yeah, but nothing to write home about.
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gosh pure, heart crushing poetry. how can I get Joachim to do the same but centered in a more melanated-lead & vibrant culture?
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Joachim Trier is the most consistent filmmaker of all time. Nothing but bangers
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It wasn’t bad but also wasn’t good, quite boring – nothing really happens and no one is endearing
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Lots of melancholy in this one… I’m going to have to think about this story for a minute.
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third part of the film is a real masterpiece. When you lose something all you have to do is remember, but don’t live only with memories
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entre 3.5 y 4 pero tengo un sesgo y me vale. a primera instancia siento que algo no corresponde. la estética del hogar aparece algo repetitivo con sus trabajos posteriores, pero esto no es noruega y la estética ikea choca con la sociedad del consumo estadounidense? tal vez, simplemente, todas las personas artísticas viven de manera similar. “I saw her, you know. I saw who she was. I was here.” Hmmm estoy llegando al punto de preguntarme si este…
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Trier il meurt si il fait un film qui parle d’autre chose que les problèmes des ultra bourges avec leurs darons
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I always wonder why foreign auteurs are compelled to make american movies which never work! only watched this because i am slowly going through isabelle huppert’s filmography. did not finish it, I love joachim trier but for some reason this film ends up mixing norwegian dryness with being drab and american. jesse eisenberg does what he does absolutely best– plays an awkward, emotionally stunted wanker! Everyone else is weird, the house is beautiful, the war-photographer background is odd
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Почти случайно наткнувшись на название, я позволил истории увлечь себя. К концу фильма, я долго сидел молча после этого. Композиция кадра показывает серьёзную работу всей съёмочной группы. Общая атмосфера уже сама по себе заставляет надолго замереть перед экраном. Построение сюжета довольно сдержанное, оставляющее зрителю пространство для собственных выводов. Если говорить прямо, это будет сложно забыть.
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亡くなった母親の秘密が家族の間で明らかになっていく過程を描いたドラマで、静かなトーンの中に登場人物それぞれの喪失感が丁寧に描かれている。 演技陣の抑えた表現が印象的で、家族それぞれの視点から物語が語り直される構成が興味深い。派手さはないけど、誠実に喪失と向き合う姿勢が感じられる一本だった。
- Synopsis
- Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
- Director
- Joachim Trier
- Writer
- Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
- Studio
- Motlys, Memento Films Production, Nimbus Film, Animal Kingdom
- Country
- Norway, USA, France, Denmark
- Language
- English, French
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 109 mins
- France18 May 2015
- Canada15 Sep 2015
- USA08 Apr 2016
- Norway01 Oct 2015
- Finland06 Nov 2015
- Denmark03 Dec 2015
- France09 Dec 2015
- Sweden18 Dec 2015
- Germany07 Jan 2016
- Netherlands18 Feb 2016
- Spain04 Mar 2016
- Hungary24 Mar 2016
- UK22 Apr 2016
- Greece05 May 2016
- Portugal12 May 2016
- Italy23 Jun 2016
- South Korea27 Oct 2016
- Japan26 Nov 2016
- Switzerland03 Oct 2015
- Ireland22 Apr 2016
- USA05 Jul 2016
- Brazil29 Jul 2017
- USA02 Aug 2016
- UK15 Aug 2016
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