Drama

Oslo, 31. august

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Don't Look Now

Norway

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Oslo, August 31st

Anders Danielsen Lie

Malin Crépin

Hans Olav Brenner

Ingrid Olava

Tone Beate Mostraum

Øystein Røger

Aksel Thanke

Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal

Renate Reinsve

Anders Borchgrevink

Petter Width Kristiansen

Johanne Kjellevik Ledang

Iselin Steiro

Elin Gunnarsdotter Sandvik

Eskil Vogt

Hans-Jørgen Osnes

Joachim Trier

Yngve Sæther

Sigve Endresen

Jostein Oksavik

Gunn Tove Grønsberg

Bo Lundgren

Hallvard Berby

Annette Staubo

Roy Fenstad

Stian Jorde

Gisle Tveito

Paul Tunge

Kjetil Haugen

Hugo Ekornes

Katharina Lie

Espen Skjørdal

Ingar Asdahl

Fanny Wadman

Espen Klouman Høiner

Emil Trier

Andrew Windtwood

Jens Berger

Thomas Lund

Christian Siebenherz

Maria Roli

Deni Jordan

Jørgen Werner

Aslaug Konradsdottir

Glenn Erland Tosterud

Maria Haglund

Marita Holmeset-Varpe

Magnus Ramsdalen

Gernot Grondinger

Torfinn Rønning Sanderud

Jørgen Johannessen

Torgny Amdam

Eirik Sæter Stordahl

Ragna Nordhus Midtgard

Petter Onstad Løkke

Julien Alary

Jakob Rørvik

David Skaufjord

Olivier Bugge Coutté

Therese Naustdal

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Ola Fløttum

Jakob Ihre

Ellen Ystehede

Jørgen Stangebye Larsen

Christian Rubeck

Solfrid Kjetså

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Anders Danielsen Lie offers a really quite intense performance here as the recovering drug addict "Anders". His physicians think he's sufficiently improved to be able to spend a day, unsupervised, in Oslo, with family and friends and to have an interview for a job. Initially it all goes well. He drops in on "Thomas" (Hans Olav Brenner) and his family and is geared up (not literally) for his interview. That's where the wheels come off and we spend the rest of his day as he reminisces about the past, encounters some of those important to that past and gradually appears to be coming to terms with what he considers best for his future. Joachim Trier uses the gentle pacing of this drama to allow Lie to slowly demonstrate his character's sense of introspection and considered self-destruction. This isn't an ill-educated man who grew up in squalor or depravity, this is an erudite and engaging "Anders" who comes from a decent, loving, home that's not without it's ups and downs, but ought to have provided him with more of an emotional robustness that we are presented with here. There is a solid cast of supporting actors - Malin Crépin ("Malin") strong amongst them, as his brain appears to be putting his house in order. It's not an easy film to sit through. It's traumatic in a delicate and measured sort of way, and Lie delivers us a persona with whom it's easy enough to empathise and want to give a good shake to, too.

ND/NF Q&A w/ Joachim Trier, "Oslo, August 31st"

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Anders Danielsen Lie

Malin Crépin

Hans Olav Brenner

Ingrid Olava

Tone Beate Mostraum

Øystein Røger

Aksel Thanke

Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal

Renate Reinsve

Anders Borchgrevink

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