Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World is the closing chapter of the director’s Oslo trilogy after Reprise (2006) and 2011’s Oslo, August 31. In the Cannes Film Festival competition this yea…
and 2011’s. In the Cannes Film Festival competition this year, it’s a look at how one’s supposedly best years pass by so quickly you barely realize it. Trier and his stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie , stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio to discuss the thinking behind the film’s title, its themes and how being privileged by an abundance of choice can sometimes postpone life’s major decisions. Check out the video above.
In the film, Reinsve plays Julie, a spirited 30-year-old who has everything going for her. But she’s also experiencing growing disenchantment with a long-time serious boyfriend . At loose ends, Julie aimlessly wanders around the city on a beautiful summer evening and quietly crashes a wedding party in full progress. Encountering Eivind , they start flirting in funny intoxicated ways.
For Reinsve, “Joachim made a good portrait of the time we are living in… We get so much information from everywhere. The individuality, the ambitions of how we want to live our life, it’s so much things that makes it hard to choose what to do and who to be with. She’s going through a journey there.” Added Lie, “I’m generally quite happy with the decisions in my life… But still I can very much identify with the themes of the film. You know, I’ve always felt privileged, I was happy to be born and raised in Norway which is one of the best countries in the world to live in and I’ve always had a lot of choices.