Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Robyn Nesbitt (nesfilmreviews) A prizewinner in Norway, this debut feature by director Joachim Trier traces the friendship between two young novelists, one who makes a splash with his first book and cracks under the pressure (Anders Danielson Lie), and another who takes a while to find himself but seems poised for a much longer and more substantial career (Espen Klouman-Hoiner). In the opening scene, childhood buddies Phillip (Lie) and Erik (Hoiner) nervously stand in front of a mailbox about to ship their first novels to a publisher. We're told that cult status beckons, because mainstream celebrity is for losers. Then reality sinks in and deals them both a blow: Erik's novel is rejected, while Philip's is published to great acclaim – only for a psychotic break to undo him at the height of his success.In "Reprise" time is fluid. Scenes meander, disappear and reappear and sometimes the film jumps forward, showing us what will transpire before it does. The movie has a smart and knowing script, inviting the audience for reflection of their own. Joachim Trier neatly encapsulates that take-on-the-world optimism of unsullied youth. "Reprise" is many things at once: a window into mental illness, obsessive love, the uneasy transition from youth to adulthood, and finally the most intriguing aspect of the story line-fraternal competitiveness. The only real problem with the movie is it doesn't entirely establish a genuine, heartfelt interest in the characters for the audience. Both protagonists' grew up idealizing Norway's greatest living writer, who tells one of them his novel is good and shows promise. In the same sense, the movie itself is good, and first time director Joachim Trier shows great potential.

oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx This film follows a group of friends, the nucleus of which are two young authors, Phillip and Erik. They're devotees of Sten Egil Dahl, a made-up literary doyen. They've grown up saving lunch money to buy his books and harbour desires to match his exploits. Despite being sharp young men, under their, admittedly brilliant posturing, they are subject to the same emotional problems as other young men of their age, they just have superb spiel to camouflage it. The posture involves encyclopedic knowledge of punk and post-punk music, understated yet highly deliberate image crafting using clothing from the likes of Fred Perry and punk-compromise hairstyles, as well as cine-literacy and knowledge of the canon of avant-garde literature. A more level-headed view would be that they're quite well off, complacent, and participating in another variation of consumerism. But I have some level of appreciation for people who are able to create their own world when they find they don't like the one everyone else lives in. An anthropologist might view their behaviour as comprising a sexual strategy.Erik and Phillip have different amorous complications. Erik has the fairly misogynistic idea that as a young writer, his girlfriend will impede his talent, that there is no intellectual value in relationships (his friend Lars refers to women lulling one into a life of nice dinners and TV series). Phillip falls victim to obsessional love. The ghost of the nouveau roman is in the workings of this movie. Books from both Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet are on bookshelves in the movie. As well as overt games with style and structure in the movie, both authors were concerned with obsessional love. The movie shows Phillip and Erik watching Marguerite Duras' short film Césarée, accompanied by the perfection of Amy Flamer's violin score. The movie is about an intense all-consuming love and ends with the line "L'endroit s'appelle Césarée / Cesarea. Il n'y a plus rien à voir. Que le tout" Duras' narration of her own text refers to a love story from antiquity, between Berenice Queen of the Jews, and Titus, Emperor of Rome, she says that nothing is left, except for everything, the whole. The permanent has remained, the self-consuming love of Berenice. Phillip it's clear, has connected to the movie more than Erik.One has to wonder how many references Joachim Trier has made in this movie, Cesarée is quite the obscure film (by absolute fluke it's also my favourite film). The moment in the film is meaningless if you're not one of the handful of people on the planet who will have seen both films. There are levels and levels of textual games in this movie and although I'm not usually won over by these things, Reprise is a masterpiece in those terms. There's a narrator of obscure and paradoxical identity, flashforwards, alternative timelines, passages of uncertain chronological placement, implied but uncertain sections and a plethora of textual references.One is sometimes tempted to doubt the worthiness of the two authors. Geir for example is not of the same alert intellectual character as the others in the circle of friends, and it's suggested he's tolerated because he's good at getting tickets for Kommune gigs (an invented band). However, the movie gradually reveals a lot of warmth under the sneers and insults this group trade.The soundtrack is particularly good here, in particular Le Tigre's Deceptacon and Georges Delerue's iconic Theme de Camille from Godard's movie Le Mepris.Kept my eyes open long after midnight which is rare.

jmlawren-1 This movie reminds what great storytelling in film is all about. The yarn never gets boring. The humor and angst is subtle and quiet. I never expected to enjoy this movie as much as I did. Great performances.Forging through subtitles can be a bore but so much of this storytelling is visual. There is phenomenal dialog, too. The best part comes when the gang of neo-intellectual he-man woman haters start to grow up and fall in love with real women. With so many slick Hollywood blockbusters blanketing the world, it's wonderful to see a good film get some attention. And a Norwegian film, for pete's sake. Who would have thunk it? It's a new New Wave all over again.Hey, is "Fingerfucked by the Prime Minister" a real song?

K R This Norwegian movie is hard to describe but it reminds me of so many great French New Wave movies from the 60s. It borrows heavily from some of these movies, but it's a completely original, unique, thrilling movie on its own. The person below who gave this movie one star must have been on crack or accidentally wandered into the wrong theater thinking he was going to see "Made of Honor" or some of other piece of ****.This movie is the start of a brilliant career. Seriously. Years from now, people will be talking about this director the same way people used to talk about Ingmar Bergman or Godard. It's that great!