[A] hilarious, smart and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama.
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05/16/08
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 CriticIt's a fine film by any standard, on any scale.
05/16/08
Top CriticA rich and touching exploration of the vagaries of fortune, literary reputation and, above all, friendship that works on several levels at once.
05/16/08
An 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
The 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
The movie also contains many moments of joy and humor, folded into a fantastic, shifting structure that keeps the film wildly alive. It's an impressive first film.
05/16/08
A Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave.
05/16/08
The picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic.
05/16/08
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
Strikes universal chords strong enough to break down cinematic language barriers.
05/15/08
[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 CriticLike his subjects, Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier is young and bursting with ambition
05/15/08
...owes more than a nod to Tom Tykwer's fate-bending fairy tale, "Run Lola Run," with its narrated 'what if' and flight of fancy' scenarios which continually spin off the main action.
05/15/08
A clever and playful Norwegian film about two friends and their literary adventures.
05/15/08
A savage, funny, tender, tragic and strangely beautiful riff on being young and growing up in a broken world.
05/15/08
That rare debut in which self-conscious formal daring proves exhilarating rather than excruciating.
05/15/08
...both showy and precious.... On top of that, it feels like self-consciously warmed over Godard, with traces of Run, Lola, Run tossed in.
05/14/08
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
An exhilarating weave of childhood remembrance, projection, literary digression, and impish commentary.
05/12/08
Top CriticNorwegian 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
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