Fifteen years after their first feature-length collaboration, Reprise (Q&A with Joachim Trier and Anders Danielsen Lie tomorrow!), and 10 years after its follow-up, Oslo, August 31st (Q&A with Trier and Danielsen Lie this Sunday), director Joachim Trier and his longtime co-writer Eskil Vogt turned their gaze back on the Norwegian capital city with NYFF59 Main Slate selection The Worst Person in the World (opening next Friday, Feb. 4).
Playful yet melancholy, intricately observed yet bracingly deft, and centering on three exhilarating performances from actor (and practicing physician) Anders Danielsen Lie, the films that comprise the newly christened Oslo Trilogy deliver lyrical, unflinching meditations on memory, self-knowledge, and the mutability of identity in today’s Europe.
In celebration of the new film’s American release, Film at Lincoln Center is excited to host the filmmaker for live Q&As and present the Trilogy alongside a selection of companion films curated by Trier and Vogt.
- Sunday, Jan. 30 with special introduction from Trier: My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996), a breathlessly inventive film starring Mathieu Amalric as a navel-gazing academic who bounces between lovers as he struggles to break things off with his girlfriend. An NYFF34 selection.
- Monday, Jan. 31st: A mid-career triumph for Rohmer, the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Green Ray (1986), follows a depressed, newly single Parisian secretary as she spends her summer vacation looking for happiness and true love.
- Wed. Feb 2nd and Thurs. 3rd: Ukrainian-Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko was only 28 when she directed her second feature, Wings (1966), a searing & quietly impassioned character study of a woman caught between two ways of being, in the early aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw.
The full lineup can be found here.
Use the discount code NORWAY ($5 off in person screenings), eligible for any screening during The Oslo Trilogy (Jan. 28-Feb. 3)