an intimate masterpiece of sorting
Emotion by looks
His heroes are looking for their place in the world. How to build their own lives without moving away from their loved ones? To translate this dive into relations, Trier scrutinizes the faces in close -up. “With him, emotions go through looks,” says Aymeric Pantet.
The intimacy of the characters also manifests itself through very just dialogues. “A place being left to the unsaid, each spectator can project themselves into the exchanges between a father and his daughter, two sisters or two lovers. »»
This quest, sorting it towards the banks of the imagination. He, whose grandfather was also a director and the cinephile parents, merges the Nordic and international influences, including the French Alain Resnais and his art of offbeat assembly. In Julie (in 12 chapters) (2021), he stages a thirty -year -old heroine who doubts her vocation and his feelings for Aksel.
As the latter prepares coffee, time stops. Julie then begins to run, almost to fly, through Oslo populated by petrified people, to find a man of whom she in love, kiss her and walk with him. When she returns, the day will resume her lesson, she will leave Aksel but he will remain attached. A scene that suggests that even the most chaotic paths are enamelled with epiphanies.
Family spirit (s)
In a house in Oslo, a secular stronghold of the Borg family, the walls speak, revealing here the trace of an argument between parents, there the sizes of the children who grew up there. When Nora and Agnès (opening photo) Organize their mother’s funerals there, they see their father tumble, a renowned filmmaker who abandoned the home. The ghost then proposed to Nora, who became the theater actress, the main role of her next film, inspired by the story of her own mother.
In Sentimental valueJoachim Trier wonders about family transmission through generations. How to evacuate the traumas and make it the impulses of those who preceded us? In a moving final scene, the director lends time and creation the power to heal the deepest injuries.
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