![]() ![]() His Gen X friends, struggling with parenthood and the specter of middle age, look corny and compromised in her millennial eyes. “That was the moment she fell in love with him,” the narrator notes, before Julie goes on to prove him right. Shortly after their first hookups, Aksel tries to end his relationship with Julie because of the difference in their ages, worrying that their incompatible expectations will cause trouble between them. Some of this is a sign of generational progress - not that 21st-century Norway, as Julie experiences it, is exactly a feminist utopia. Julie’s father (Vidar Sandem) is a neglectful narcissist, and she’s fortunate that both Aksel and Eivind are, all in all, much nicer guys. Somebody’s tears are always on the horizon, and mortality lurks around every corner.įor a while, it seems as if this will involve choosing the right man. A mood of somber rumination falls over the fun like a slant of winter light. For all his cinematic eclecticism and exuberance, Trier belongs to a cultural tradition that includes Ibsen, Strindberg, Munch and Knausgaard - not the most whimsical company. It’s a clean, well-lighted metropolis with a broken heart. The Norwegian capital is what gives the film its character and explains its characters. ![]() So does Trier’s heart-on-the-sleeve affection for Oslo, which folds “The Worst Person in the World” into a loose trilogy with his earlier films “Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st.” (Lie, a fascinating and mercurial screen presence, is crucial to all three movies.) The cliché that the city is a character in its own right seems woefully insufficient. The voice-over, the love triangle and the brisk insouciance of his style might put you in mind of François Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim.” The jazz clarinet that provides a bridge from the prologue to the first chapter (setting up Billie Holiday’s version of “The Way You Look Tonight”) surely conjures the specter of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” He is confident enough to wear his influences on his sleeve without falling into empty pastiche or pious homage. It was actually some really lovely days on set to do this. ![]() So I think there was an added joy, both for the film team and for the people that were a part of it, to gather in such large crowds again. And mind you, we did this after the first wave of COVID. So it became this almost feeling of a party. And so a couple of people had run into the street and just froze in new positions, just to add on on the second or third take. ![]() People have been looking out their windows and realized what we were doing out of their apartments or something. But a lovely thing that happened towards the end of this sequence that she runs down a street and we just follow her, and we realized suddenly that people have joined in. And we did prep days, and I had a wonderful team of people help me arrange the choreography of it, rather, this frozen choreography of the sequence. And they were cast on the notion that, can you stand as if you’re running, almost? Or can you stand still like this or that? So they all had an idea coming on set. So most of the people you see are extras that were hired. So what we did was we asked people around Oslo to stand still while we would have Julie run past them and run along the streets and various spots that we’ve chosen. I wanted it to feel more like an old-school musical or something. So what we’re experimenting with in the scene is, what would happen if she could freeze time and run away from her present relationship and try to have a moment for herself with the other guy? I did not want the sequence to be this slick CGI, perfect thing. And she is very curious to explore romantically this other relationship with a guy called Eivind. In this scene, we see the lead character in the film, Julie, played by Renate Reinsve, and she’s with her slightly older boyfriend Aksel. My name is Joachim Trier, and I am the co-writer and director of The Worst Person in the World. Transcript ‘The Worst Person in the World’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Joachim Trier narrates a sequence from his film featuring Renate Reinsve. ![]()
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