Fjord

In northern Norway, two conservative, Christian parents (Romanian Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and Norwegian Lisbet (Renate Reinsve)) are suspected of beating their children, and clash with the authorities. Based on a…

Backrooms

An alcoholic furniture salesman (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his therapist (Renate Reinsve) find themselves exploring a hidden extradimensional space that can be accessed through the furniture store’s basement. 20-year-old YouTuber Kane…

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…