A nuanced, layered, and finely acted work about art, memory, and fractured familial bonds, Trier’s latest is quietly absorbing and emotionally intelligent, centering on an absent father who is a famous auteur hoping to get his elder daughter to star in his new, personal film.
A urologist and her gay male nurse are non-committal in their pursuit of relationships with others, but their array of experiences challenges their worldviews on love, sex and the ‘morality’ of values, in this outstanding middle entry of Haugerud’s loose thematic ‘Oslo’ trilogy.
This Berlinale Golden Bear winner is one of the best films of 2025, exploring how a teenage girl’s crush on her teacher sparks questions about literary catharsis and ownership of private feelings, as she mulls over publishing her sacred experiences of ‘love’.
Joachim Trier’s debut feature is still his most striking work—a youthful, frenetic immersion into the intellectual and emotional psyches of two best friends who hope for a big break as authors.
Movies about children with hidden powers are not a new thing, but in this Norwegian psychological drama with a terrific sound design, writer-director Vogt has created an unsettling portrait of childhood as the thin line between good and evil is explored.
A romance drama that is also a comedy and an elegy, Trier’s introspective new film has an understated, layered quality—and some cinematic tricks up its sleeves— exploring what this era’s ennui among millennials might feel like.
Watching and listening to farm animals can be surprisingly cinematic in this immersive dialogue-free new documentary by Kossakovsky that seems to exist outside of time, even as it startlingly reminds us that these animals have fates they can’t control.
There are richly-realised characters and performances in this layered drama about depression, centering on a family who can’t seem to communicate with each other, but it doesn’t quite come together in a resonating way by its denouement.
Joachim Trier’s attempt at genre-type filmmaking doesn’t really break new ground in this straightforward Norwegian psychological drama centering on a young woman with hidden telekinetic powers.
Art, crime and the human condition intersect deftly in this beguiling documentary about the unlikely friendship between a painter and the thief who stole her paintings.
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