Call it an avenue. For I had come to decide I was finally a failureβ¦[suicide] is a lonely landscape with the pale light of a dream and something calling to you, a voice in the wind. Certain nights I would go leaden with dread because I could hear the chamber music tuning up, tuning up and near to pitch. Yes, murder sounds like a symphony in your head, and suicide is a pure quartet. And speaking to the director of gutting cinema, his distant relative, filmmaker Joachim Trier, in the last decade has emerged as one of the most poignant and interesting voices in contemporary European cinema with both Reprise and Oslo, August 31st.
His films are poetic and haunting, honest and visceral, telling stories of friendship, illness, love, ambition, foolishness, and intellect that are both playful in their style and striking in frankness. When the credits roll on Reprise or Oslo , I always feel somewhat refreshed, being satisfied with something that spoke to me so strongly yet was entertaining for every minute, wishing they would go on for two more hours. But before all this, Trier was a Norwegian skateboarding champion two times over; he pursued his love of cinema by making skate videos.
They were his first foray behind the camera, where he learned valuable lessons about the technique of creating something to engage. Actor, musician, and medical doctor Anders Danielsen Lie was cast in the film, and his friendship grew with Trier. Oslo, August 31st is an adaptation based on an adaptation.
When you are watching a movie or looking at a photo, you learn how to accept some of the experiences you have had. All my life I was watching a lot of movies yet nothing was so important The Fire Within.
Falling into melancholy is a way to cope with death, it helps with working it out. Throughout the day he encounters various people from his past and meanders through the city like a foreign entity unto himself. The structure of having the film all take place in one day allows us to truly see from his perspective and feel how solipsistic his world feels.
