Renate Reinsve in the movie “Armand.” An appropriately Bergmanesque psychodrama from writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, “Armand” unravels from an unseen “incident” between two primary-school students. That I cannot provide much more than that turns out to be the point: Described only vaguely, confusingly and second- or third-hand, what happened between Armand and …
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The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. While every chapter in this playfully structured movie reveals some crucial detail about who Julie is, Trier isn’t one to diagram his characters so neatly. The most mercurial movie heroine in many a moon — rivaled only by “Licorice Pizza’s” Alana Kane, another young woman allowed to …
NEW YORK — Last fall, film director Joachim Trier and the actors Renata Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie gathered at a restaurant in midtown New York to talk about why people seem to keep crying during their movie. That’s where we’re coming from.” “The Worst Person in the World” is Norway’s shortlisted Oscar submission and Trier’s stab at something like …
Somewhere around the 20-minute mark of “Titane,” Julia Ducournau’s astonishing, Palme d’Or-winning horror film, I was flashing back to all the times my colleague Justin Chang and I lamented the loss of moviegoing last year. A few days later, I saw Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s 2-hour, 59-minute drama “Drive My Car” in a packed screening room, no one talking, no one moving, …
