Louder Than Bombs (2015)
Directed by Joachim Trier
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's elder son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in — and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
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Tonally it has something of the dreamy ebb and flow of Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko , with an occasional echo of Sam Mendes’s feted American Beauty and a hint of Lynne Ramsay’s sublime We Need to Talk About Kevin lurking on the sidelines.
This character is the lynchpin of Louder Than Bombs, the English language feature debut of Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier (Reprise and Oslo, August 31 ), and her death creates a vacuum in which the other characters struggle to connect and move on with their romantic and domestic lives.
Louder Than Bombs, the first English-language movie from Norwegian director Joachim Trier ( Reprise , Oslo, August 31st ), plays like an adaptation of some imaginary classic of modern literature, the kind you always assumed was too interior to ever be properly translated to the screen.
Joachim Trier’s previous features, his excellent debut Reprise and its near-perfect successor Oslo, August 31st, both co-written with Eskil Vogt, pulled off the remarkable feat of painting serious and moving portraits of a social class whose ills are usually deemed undeserving of sympathy.
The gut-bustlingly acute one-two punch of Joachim Trier’s Reprise and Oslo, August 31st felt like the inaugurating works of a major European auteur.
The fleet dreams of Joachim Trier’s three features, “Reprise,” “Oslo, August 31st” and now “Louder Than Bombs” define the Norwegian director as one of the most cinema-savvy of contemporary filmmakers.
The former national skateboarding champion of Norway — no, really — Trier has emerged as one of the most interesting filmmakers to come out the modern Scandi-cine scene, specializing in vibrant, fresh-air odes to beginnings (2006's Reprise) and endings (2011's painful portrait of a suicide Oslo, August 31st).
Paolo Sorrentino, an Italian filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty , has a movie already getting awards season buzz for Michael Caine.
Weaving together flashbacks with present-day brooding, revealing hurtful family secrets and offering observations on the alienation of modern life, Trier’s film approaches terrain that’s been covered in everything from American Beauty to Little Children to Men, Women & Children.