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Criticism of ‘The worst person in the world’, the big surprise of the season

Directed by Joachim Trier, the film was awarded at the Cannes, Seville and Valladolid festivals.

Joachim Trier’s cinema has many interesting things, including how it narratively and visually represents the passage of time. He refers to that of two other European filmmakers: Olivier Assayas and Mia Hansen-Løve, a director with whom Trier shares formal and writing features. He also has in common with them the use of temporal arcs (and jumps) to psychologically describe the characters. For different reasons, the protagonists of ‘Reprise’ (2006) and ‘Oslo, August 31’ (2011), the films that together with ‘The Worst Person in the World’ make up the Oslo Trilogy, slide through time and space. And, without falling into rigid character studies, he uses these interior and exterior journeys to describe them and recount their psychological and emotional processes with unusual sensitivity. In this closing trilogy, the story of Julie (Renate Reinsve) in 12 chapters, a prologue and an epilogue, covers several years in the life of the protagonist. And it is very original in recounting those four years in Julie’s life, focusing exclusively on her doubts, putting them before her decisions and her revelations. Trier defends doubt as learning, and it is very stimulating to understand a character more for what he does not know, his missteps and his whims than for what he is clear about. It is not an easy bet, since the fickleness of the character could have made empathy difficult (hence the title).

However, two things make it impossible to stop looking at and understanding Julie. One, the warmth, humor and humanity with which Trier embraces her protagonist. Other, the magnetism of an actress who shows a thousand faces (those of the character’s thousand doubts) without making a single pout. The relationship between Julie and one of her partners, a comic book author older than her (Anders Danielsen Lie), is another of the successes of the film: finally someone talks about nostalgia without ridiculing it, despising it or analyzing it as if it were an accessory and not part of us.

for fans of atypical romantic comedies and characters who doubt

The best: its representation of the passage of time and the magnetism of Renate Reinsve.

The worst: not understanding that the protagonist does not intend to like you.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Joachim Trier Distribution: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum Original title: Verdens verste menneske Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark Year: 2021 Release date: 11–03-2022 Gender: Dramatic comedy Script: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt Duration: 121 minutes

Synopsis: Julie is going to be 30 and her life is a mess. She doesn’t take advantage of her talent and her boyfriend, Aksel, a successful graphic novelist, wants her to settle down. She until she meets Eivind…

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