Norwegian director Joachim Trier captures youth in all its idealistic glory
di Carina Chocano The Los Angeles Times
For all their emphasis on the youth market, American movies have never done a good job of portraying actual youth. The idea that young equals dumb prevails -- never mind that it's about the only time in life when reading Foucault or sitting through a Tarkovsky double feature is a viable task. What Hollywood tends to ignore is perhaps the central project of late adolescence and early adulthood -- the avid, voracious creation of identity through books, movies, music and cultural hero-worship.
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's inspiring first feature "Reprise" joyfully tackles the process of self-creation, as well as the friendships that feed and sustain it. [...]
di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (3716 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 maggio 2008