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.
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06/12/08
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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Reviews for Reprise
Top Critic... 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
07/25/08
As auspicious –- and breathless -– a debut as Reservoir Dogs was for Tarantino.
07/03/08
The vibrant Norwegian debut feature Reprise is one of those rare films about writers where form matches content, with fresh insights about the literary world coming via a complex, liberating series of flashbacks, ellipses, and other bold flourishes.
05/15/08
Like Jules and Jim or Band of Outsiders blended with A Hard Day's Night.
06/27/08
Trier justifies the boys' hardships with a bright and breezy detour through would-be glories. Altogether he crafts a striking portrait of the artist as a young brat, with the leads showing enough sensitivity to carry it off.
09/07/07
Reprise, a vibrant new Norwegian film, burns with the passions of literature and youth.
05/23/08
Charming, clever and well made, Norway’s Reprise employs just the right kind of meta.
05/16/08
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.
07/28/08
Two aspiring novelists in hip young Oslo scribble their way through success, failure, love and friendship in this crafty little gem directed by Lars Von Trier's nephew, Joachim Trier.
09/07/07
The movie is enjoyable for its flashy surfaces--the witty editing, the narrative forecasting, the droll omniscient voice-over--but as drama it seems superficial.
05/30/08
The cinema is an ideal medium for considering characters like those in "Reprise," but you'd have to see Jules and Jim to find out why.
05/23/08
Top CriticA kinetic delight, Reprise comes from director Joachim Trier, born in Denmark but raised in Oslo, Norway, and it's a highlight of the filmgoing year so far.
05/22/08
Top CriticA Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave.
05/16/08
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.
08/30/08
Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn't a close relative of Lars von Trier, but his debut feature film bares the characteristics of an ambitious if overreaching young filmmaker taunting his elders to scold him for his audacity.
05/05/08
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.
07/25/08
Chief benefit of this film with its rapid editing and copious flashbacks is its mixture of levity and seriousness as Trier examines the lives of Norwegians just past their teens.
04/30/08
The word 'Reprise' may mean recurrence, but Trier's fleet, joyously intellectual film comes at us like anything but a retread.
06/06/08
It's not exactly breaking new ground, but the material has a real ring of truth to it. However, it should be said that this Norwegian import is also a bit sullen, which means it will be an acquired taste for some audiences.
06/19/08
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