With heart, splendor, and yearning, co-writer and director Joachim Trier ends his Oslo Trilogy.
Photo: Neon
Joachim Trier’s final film in his loosely constituted Oslo Trilogy is stitched throughout with the color of longing. He takes mundane desires and the attendant fears and elevates them to the level of the sacred, most sharply in a sequence just a little over the halfway point. In the eighth chapter of the film, the lead, Julie (Renate Reinsve), attends an intimate hangout with her new boyfriend, Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), where she encourages the small group to do shrooms. They lounge about until the trip kicks in; for Julie, it starts in the kitchen as the gray floor beneath her feet slowly shifts to resemble a…
