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Tag / Norway

May 6, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Innocents, The (2021)

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  • 2021, Norway
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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.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 22, 2022March 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Worst Person in the World, The (2021)

  • Criterion Collection, Trier, Joachim
  • 2021, Joachim Trier, Norway
  • 2 Comments

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. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 29, 2021October 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Gunda (2020)

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  • 2020, Documentary, Norway, USA, Victor Kossakovsky
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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.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 29, 2020May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Louder Than Bombs (2015)

  • Trier, Joachim
  • 2015, France, Joachim Trier, Norway
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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. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 27, 2020May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Thelma (2017)

  • Trier, Joachim
  • 2017, Denmark, Joachim Trier, Norway
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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.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 13, 2020July 15, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Painter and the Thief, The (2020)

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  • 2020, Documentary, Norway
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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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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 10, 2020May 7, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Oslo, August 31st (2011)

  • Trier, Joachim
  • 2011, Denmark, Joachim Trier, Norway
  • 1 Comment

A recovering drug addict leaves his rehabilitation centre for a day to visit his acquaintances in this restrained, melancholic if also warmly empathetic second feature by Joachim Trier.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 2, 2019October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

22 July (2018)

  • Greengrass, Paul
  • 2018, Norway, Paul Greengrass
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This could be Paul Greengrass’ weakest picture in a long while—a less-than-invigorating work centering on the 2011 Norway terror attacks that struggles to get into any kind of momentum.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.
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