Joachim Trier

Reviews

The Worst Person in the World

The Worst Person in the World has a slightly misleading title.  It seemingly refers to a specific individual and, at least during the first act of this movie, that individual appears to be Julie (Renate Reinsve).  When Julie tries to focus on someone or something, she consistently has one eye on the next focal point.  She isn’t hard to please and she isn’t stubborn, but she has an issue with commitment that she isn’t even…

Festival Coverage

TIFF 2015: ‘Louder Than Bombs’

By: Shannon Page Louder than Bombs’s non-linear plot follows a widower named Gene Reed (Gabriel Byrne) and his sons, Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and Conrad (Devin Druid), as they navigate life two years after the death of Gene’s wife Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) who was an acclaimed conflict photographer.  Jonah, now a university professor, returns to his childhood home to sort through his mother’s things prior to an upcoming retrospective on her life’s work. Given the subject…