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The Worst Person in the World is Triers last film in his Oslo trilogy (Reprise, Oslo August 31th), and it's about a women named Julie (Reinsve) whom is struggling to find her place in the world.

Virtue is the quality of being a good person and doing the right things, both for yourself and for others. I believe that Trier is problematizing this in this film by asking the question about whether or not you should do whats expected from the world around you, like settling for a more or less standardized life in forms of career and familiy, or if you should be out there and experiment to find your place in a rather confusing modern society.

Julie is on her way into her thirties and is in a relationship with Aksel (Danielsen). She is an indecisive individual when it comes to what to make out of her life. Aksel, being in his mid forties, is ready to have a familiy of his own, but Julie is not ready for that just yet. Her search for an meaningful existence leads her to another man named Eivind (Norddrum), which she falls in love with. She leaves Aksel in hope for that this time, things will be different, but will it be so?

This film is beautiful and intelligent. The way it depitcs todays social relations and culture in Norway, and probably other places in the world, is spot-on. All characters are deep and profound, where everyone of them playes an important role in the story no matter how big their part is on the screen. Everything seems to be in its right place.

The Worst Person in the World is another great film by Joachim Trier.

This is not a regular documentary, but it's a documentary about how documentaries are made, and how truth can sometimes be altered to fit the story. That's why I call Further Beyond a meta-documentary.

Still, its also about the life of the irishman Ambrose O'Higgins, and his travles from Ireland to Chile. It's also about a women named Helen, and how she, New-York borned, ended up in Ireland as a child.

My interpretation of the film is that its about going further beyond, not just by traveling, but also how stories are told through cinema, and how we are biased to expect any documentary to tell us the one truth.

You just have to see this one for yourselves.

Triers second film in his Oslo trilogy depicts the complexities of how it is to return to a familiar place under different circumstances.

In Oslo, August 31st, we meet Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie), a former drug addict. Anders is on his day out from rehab in Oslo to attend a job interview. Before and after the interview, he takes the opportunity to meet up with friends, and problems left undone.

This is one of the best norwegian films out there, mainly because of how it depicts the urban city life in Oslo, and the challenges which follows a recovering drug addict. As a norwegian and a former Oslo citizen, this film hit me hard. With its social realistic style, this film makes you not just reflect upon the lives of drug addicts through the perspective of Anders, but also life in general through the conversation that Anders has with his friends.

Oslo, August 31st is a socratic masterpiece.

If the point of this documentary was to portray the lives of the mercenaries involved, it would have been a decent film. I've gained a deeper understanding of what it means to be a mercenary, but when it came to the point of the film, I realized that there were no bottom line to be found here.

Pablo Escobar is just a footnote in this documentary, making it kinda pointless to watch. Most of the film is about how the mercenaries got into their profession, while the assassination "attempt" is saved for last.

The film tells the story of a group of siblings traveling across Germany right after the fall of the nazi regime. Their parents, who were loyal members of the nazi party, leaves the responsibility for the children to their oldest daughter, Lore. When she realises that their parents might never return, she decides to cross the country, which is divided between the allied forces, to get to their grandmother. On this journey, they meet a man named Thomas, who are able to help them out.

The interesting about this film, is how it portrays post-war Germany in form of the mind, body and culture. Lore, who is brilliantly played by Saskia Rosendahl, is decending into despair when it comes to her values and beliefs as she travels. The fatigue from the traveling and the paranoia takes a real hold on her, which makes her both physically and mentally ill at certain points. To survive, they have to trade objects like silverware, jewelry and other value items, to manage to get food. In total, this shows a country in such a fractured state, in a very understandable way.

The cinematography in Lore is great, and the range of colour is typical for a WW2 (Saving Private Ryan-type use of colour). It manages to capture the range of emotions by the characters, as well as the bleakness in the world they are in.

This is a movie about a world witthout any hope left in it. As women have become infertile and no child has been born in the last 18 years, the human race is slowly going towards its extinction. The hopelessness is brilliantly displayed throughout the movie with themes such as immigration, extremism, authoritarianism and political polarization. The society that we're witnessing here is clearly a dystopian one.

But hope is not lost. A pregnant woman named Kee ends up with Theo, a former activist who gets the job of getting her to The Human Project, and organisation planning to create a new and better society.

The camerawork in Children of Men is absolutely stunning. The long takes and the shaky camera that follows Theo and Kee around makes the story feel authentic. The music fills the plot with emotions and the acting is superb!

Colbert comes forth as a mastermind when it comes to cinematographic storytelling. The way these images tells the stories of different societies living in harmony with nature and the animals is breathtaking. It makes you reflect your culture, your herritage and the world in general by challenging the anthropocentric viewpoint by showing these clips as documentary evidence that a world in harmony with nature could be possible.

The music by Lisa Gerrard, Patrick Cassidy and others fills the soundscape with mystery, passion and awe, and blends in well with the poetry read by Laurence Fishburne.

The story of "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" is mostly told through cinematography. The way the characters stares at each other really transfers the tension growing between them to the viewer. This plays out brilliant in the way the characters unfolds and start to see each other as equals, both in real life and in the making of the portrait.

The cinematography, which is done by Clarie Mathon, resembles a classic piece of art, a sort of a moving portrait of the lives of french women in the late 1700's. As a big fan of cinematographic storytelling, I must say that this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is a poetic tale about looking back at your life and is narrated in a psychological style, which might make the movie hard to grasp. It's not told in a linear way and is told from an imaginary perspective as well, which also makes it a lot more challenging to watch. But if you like a challenge (and art films), I would highly recommend this.