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‘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 …

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‘Oslo, August 31st’ is an effective character piece

Oslo, August 31st Written by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Directed by Joachim Trier Norway, 2011 Oslo, August 31st is the second feature length effort from director Joachim Trier, after 2006’s Reprise, and the second cinematic adaptation of the novel Le feu follet by author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Known in most English language territories …

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