‘Oslo, August 31st’ an honest, bleak, and emotional character study
Oslo, August 31st Directed by Joachim Trier Written by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Norway, 2011 The awkwardness and pain a person can feel from forever being an outsider reverberates strongly in Oslo, August 31st, a Norwegian film that earns its dark emotions by never being excessively melodramatic. Director and co-writer Joachim Trier paints a …