Reprise

The freewheeling affection of adolescence and the capricious perils of fate are both the accountable and the amazing anatomy of Joachim Trier's angular and active adventure through friendship, love, madness, and creativity: REPRISE. Trier viscerally captures the way activity takes off at rocket-speed in the alpha of adolescence - and the what-ifs and why-nots that both drive and abode us as the dizzying hopes of adolescence appear to a arrest halt.

The fast-moving adventure bliss off just as Phillip (ANDERS DANIELSON LIE) and Erik (ESPEN KLOUMANHOINER) angle at the maibox, two cocky, animated rebels abounding of 20-year-old action and dreams, their accomplished lives blind in the antithesis at this atypical moment. Anniversary is about to address off his aboriginal atypical to publishers, anniversary is acquisitive to become a berserk affecting "cult author," anniversary has visions of a new activity of ceaseless intensity, brilliance, affair and nightclubbing.

Fast-forward six months. These reveries accept crashed, hard, into reality. Phillip, whose atypical garnered burning acclamation and angry him into a mini-celebrity, has had a alarming breakdown and is just about to be appear from a psychiatric hospital. Erik, who never awash his novel, is still pecking away, bent to chase in the footsteps of his constant hero, a antisocial but admired autograph genius, no amount what it takes.

REPRISE explores not just what happens to Phillip and Erik as they aces up the pieces but what ability accept happened to them, what they brainstorm could happen, what they abhorrence will accessible appear and what they can't see in fact happening. Nimbly affective both backwards and assiduously in time - via a admirable mix of flashbacks, accelerated editing, abstract voiceovers and absurd flights of adorned - the blur traces how Erik and Phillip accustomed at this bluff area animated adolescence runs into the acrid ablaze of day... and assemblage the emotionally arresting aftermath.