… What made you pick her? JOACHIM TRIER: I’ll use a terrible term, but in English, I think you call it a cattle call. We basically wanted to try to find some young people that would surround the rather depressed character of Anders Danielsen Lie in that film …

… newest film directed by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier, is the rare kind of art about artists that actually shines light on the meaning of making art. The film follows renowned director Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård) reuniting with his estranged daughter …

… When it was time for me to ask a question, I was primarily interested in how Trier’s relationship with actors has developed over the years. He first worked with Renate Reinsve in a bit part in “Oslo, August 31st,” and that film’s star, Anders Danielsen Lie …

… directors and longtime friends Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt’s lives remain intertwined through their filmmaking. For all of their films, the pair co-write the screenplay, with Trier directing. The two released their first feature-length film, “Reprise,” in …

… crowded end-of-year field, it stands out as one of 2025’s absolute finest. Joachim Trier attends the "Sentimental Value" red carpet during the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival on Sept. 20, 2025 in San Sebastian, Spain. Juan Naharro …

… Reprise (2006) and Oslo August 31st (2011). Both of those works focus on the psychic pain of a young Norwegian man—played in each by frequent Trier associate Anders Danielsen Lie—as he grapples with crippling depression and reflects on, and in some cases …

… lush but empty-looking parks; its moody indigo fjord. In May, when “Sentimental Value” premièred at Cannes, where it received the Grand Prix, one of the film’s stars, Elle Fanning, appeared at a press conference in a T-shirt that said “Joachim Trier Summer …

by Henry Pham Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joachim Trier is one of the most fascinating filmmakers today. He has directed Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, and The Worst Person in the World (all of which were part of his own Oslo trilogy and featured actress Renate …

… noise was silence”) and watching its history unfold in vignettes that span WWII to the late 1980s. There are glimpses of a backstage farce, with Nora trying to use a quickie with her married stage-manager lover (longtime Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie …

… remarks, “if you’re not there in that sphere of light, you can feel its absence.” The absence burns holes, acidic but silent, in the hearts of two daughters in Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World (2021). That film …