Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier (‘Oslo, August 31st’) premiered his fifth feature, chronicling the life of a 30-year-old woman who can’t seem to make up her mind, in competition…
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But Julie is also “the worst person in the world,” breaking hearts and refusing to conform to expectations. In other words, she’s guilty of not making up her mind in a society that expects us all to do so at some point, and Trier infuses his film with a sense of loss and disillusion that can’t be undone.
If this, again, were Hollywood, Julie would have learned her lesson at that point and decided to make the right choice. But this is Norway, home of the dark, dark autobiographer Karl Ove Knausgård , so we’re not going to get life-affirming lessons or happy endings, but are going to have to face the inevitable conclusion that one has to live with all of their mistakes and indecisions.
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