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:21
Fresh:18
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
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 CriticThe jagged energy of this film's opening and closing moments leave you wondering where it might have gone and what it might have been.
06/06/08
Top CriticThe word 'Reprise' may mean recurrence, but Trier's fleet, joyously intellectual film comes at us like anything but a retread.
06/06/08
Top CriticDrawing 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.
06/05/08
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticReprise has a smart and knowing script and will compel audiences to reflect on themselves at that age.
05/23/08
Top CriticIt's an invigorating brew of dynamic visuals, quicksilver emotions, playful storytelling and chic, good-looking actors.
05/23/08
Top CriticReprise, a vibrant new Norwegian film, burns with the passions of literature and youth.
05/23/08
Top CriticThe 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 CriticThey really get the young writers and that enthusiasm, but then also that heartbreak.
05/19/08
Top CriticAn intelligent and occasionally profound portrait of a pair of artists as young men.
05/16/08
Top CriticTrier's intent is to reproduce a sweet, hazy vision of the agony of youth. Ever so elliptically, he succeeds.
05/16/08
Top Critic[A] hilarious, smart and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama.
05/16/08
Top CriticIt's a fine film by any standard, on any scale.
05/16/08
Top CriticAn exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry — for life and meaning and immortality, and for other young and restless bodies — Reprise is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.
05/16/08
Top CriticThe kind of discovery that comes along only a few times a year (if we're lucky), Joachim Trier's energetic, inventive debut takes such a novel approach to well-worn themes that it makes most movies look downright lazy.
05/16/08
Top Critic[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 CriticAn exhilarating weave of childhood remembrance, projection, literary digression, and impish commentary.
05/12/08
Top CriticEffervescent, if somewhat baggy in structure, dramedy Reprise reps an impressive debut for young Norwegian Joachim Trier.
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