Sentimental Value: Life with Father

Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. Photo: Neon When my parents sold the house where I grew up and moved into an apartment, I walked through the increasingly empty rooms and…

A Different Man

Struggling actor Edward Lemuel (Sebastian Stan) has a genetic condition which causes tumors to grow all over his face; after an experimental medical treatment, he goes through a painful transformation,…

Handling the Undead

The successful Swedish horror novel was filmed in Norway, but the story remains largely the same; a number of people are grieving loved ones, including a grandchild, a partner and…

Worst Person in the World: Millennial Angst

Renate Reinsve. Photo: Oslo Pictures As Joachim Trier was making his final chapter in a trilogy of films that began with Reprise (2006) and continued with Oslo, August 31st (2011),…

Oslo, August 31st 

Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie), who has just been released from a drug rehab clinic in Oslo, has a job interview but visits an old friend (Hans Olav Brenner) first; their…