Reprise (2006)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 70 | Rotten: 10
With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 3
With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
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Two buddies are taken down different paths in life when one becomes a success and the other fails to grab the brass ring in this comedy drama. Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) are close friends who have known each other since they were children. Erik and Phillip grew up sharing a passion for literature, particularly the work of novelist Sten Egil Dahl (Sigmund Sæverud) and they each dreamed of becoming writers themselves someday. Both Erik and Phillip completed
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Espen Klouman-Høiner
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Anders Danielsen Lie
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Christian Rubeck
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Odd Magnus Williamson
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Pål Stokka
Geir -
Viktoria Winge
Kari -
Henrik Elvestad
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Henrik Mestad
Jan Eivind -
Sigmund Sæverud
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All Critics (81) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (10) | DVD (5)
This story about two aspiring writers in their early 20s has the fearlessness and vivacity of a first novel, and its playful approach to chronology and voice-over narration serves to amplify its themes instead of coming off as a show-off trick.
Top CriticReprise is not just about engaging with or surviving through the creative instinct. It is that instinct.
If you are young, male and dream of making a name for yourself in the arts, Reprise is about the joys and sufferings of that quest: It is a Jules and Jim for the punk-rock generation.
The jagged energy of this film's opening and closing moments leave you wondering where it might have gone and what it might have been.
The word 'Reprise' may mean recurrence, but Trier's fleet, joyously intellectual film comes at us like anything but a retread.
Drawing inspiration from the young-artists-in-angst tales of Godard, Truffaut and the French new wave, Joachim Trier's Reprise is both a charming homage and a vibrant work in its own right.
Stylistically bold, impressive feature debut about creative youth
Reprise alternately shows punk energy, library hush and comic anxiety. And despite ominous portents, the ending is cockeyed optimistic.
Trier is having more fun in the editing room than his story requires and he'd be well advised to spend more time in the deeper development and dramatic elements of his characters.
This is that rare film where a daring style is connected to real substance, and that's an exciting thing to experience in a first-time director.
Although there's no romantic triangle as in Francois Truffaut's classic 1961 film Jules and Jim, it seems obvious that film was an influence here.
Reprise is an ordinary tale of post-adolescent angst that would benefit from a cleaner plot line, clearer characterizations and more intriguing situations.
I realized the movie had lost me when it occurred to me that after spending many minutes with Phillip and Erik, I had no interest in reading any novel that either of them might have written.
... film full of wry comments and textural gestures - Trier mixes film stock and references to MTV-style jump cuts and the French New Wave (Truffaut's Jules and Jim is an obvious point of reference) to the extent that the pyrotechnics threaten to b
Its fresh opening combined with the satisfying resolution in the final 20 minutes help to compensate for a fizzling mid-section.
As auspicious -- and breathless -- a debut as Reservoir Dogs was for Tarantino.
Like Jules and Jim or Band of Outsiders blended with A Hard Day's Night.
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- Auf Anfang (DE)
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