This likeable, smart Danish drama about two aspiring writers has some of the arch, extra-dry-martini quality of a Whit Stillman film, including jumping locations and a dry, ironic voice-over.
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09/23/06
Reprise (2008)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:64
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
Theatrical Release:May 16, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $469,817
Synopsis: As Erik and Phillip, lifelong friends and aspiring novelists, stand in front of a mailbox clutching their manuscripts, our narrator takes a moment to speculate upon their futures. Surely both books... [More]
Starring: Espen Klouman Høiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge, Magnus Williamson
Director: Joachim Trier
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
Reprise director Joachim Trier uses flashback and fantasy sequences to develop character. He has created an honest accountability to those going through their early 20s or those who remember it.
05/27/08
Like his subjects, Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier is young and bursting with ambition
05/15/08
[A] hilarious, smart and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama.
05/16/08
Top CriticJoachim Trier's brash cinematic sampling draws on diverse sources yet it spins something defiantly fresh and original.
06/08/08
Uncannily like Truffaut's Jules et Jim in its ability to seamlessly synthesise the heedless energy of youth and its pronounced melancholy undercurrents.
09/16/06
[Director Joachim Trier] captures, in a way that's cool and romantic and heady, the moment in life when nothing matters more than ideas, influences and the possibility of shaping one's life into a work of art.
05/15/08
Top CriticThe personal nature of such a film begets the feeling of ownership, especially for the twentysomethings out there. It's about revolting from everything, even revolution.
05/19/08
The plot is pretty simple, and the depiction of the jumbled, impatient world in which the friends travel is believable.
04/19/07
An intelligent and occasionally profound portrait of a pair of artists as young men.
05/16/08
It's an invigorating brew of dynamic visuals, quicksilver emotions, playful storytelling and chic, good-looking actors.
05/23/08
Anguished and ambitious, the man-boy writers in Joachim Trier's Reprise imagine themselves into alternate lives.
05/31/08
As crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne.
05/16/08
Reprise applies beguiling visual and narrative schemes to a well-worn tale of friendly twenty-something rivals forced into awkward choices as they become adults.
05/13/08
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.
07/28/08
An exhilarating weave of childhood remembrance, projection, literary digression, and impish commentary.
05/12/08
Top CriticTrier’s blend of genuine coolness, flesh-and-blood characters and a portrait of creative types that hits marrow, however, is a hat trick we’d gladly watch ad infinitum.
10/28/06
The highs and lows of getting one's first book published are intricately and delightfully examined in Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mature feature debut.
06/12/08
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