Its fresh opening combined with the satisfying resolution in the final 20 minutes help to compensate for a fizzling mid-section.
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07/12/08
Reprise (2008)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 63 Fresh: 56 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
With Reprise, first-time director Joachim Trier effectively captures the spirit of young adulthood, and announces his arrival as a filmmaker to be watched.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: May 16, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $469,817
Synopsis: As Erik and Phillip, lifelong friends and aspiring novelists, stand in front of a mailbox clutching their manuscripts, our narrator takes a moment to speculate upon their futures. Surely both books will garner wild acclaim, lead to prolific careers, and inspire revolutions. In actuality,... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Espen Klouman Høiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge, Magnus Williamson, Pål Stokka
Director: Joachim Trier
Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Producer: Karin Julsrud
Composer: Ola Flottum
Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Producer: Karin Julsrud
Composer: Ola Flottum
Reviews
As auspicious –- and breathless -– a debut as Reservoir Dogs was for Tarantino.
07/03/08
Like Jules and Jim or Band of Outsiders blended with A Hard Day's Night.
06/27/08
Reprise is not just about engaging with or surviving through the creative instinct. It is that instinct.
06/20/08
Reprise is about negotiating the path from reckless youth to ambitious adulthood as much as it's about the craft of fiction.
06/20/08
[Trier] sometimes lapses into the literary clichés he aims to ridicule.
06/20/08
It's not exactly breaking new ground, but the material has a real ring of truth to it. However, it should be said that this Norwegian import is also a bit sullen, which means it will be an acquired taste for some audiences.
06/19/08
If you are young, male and dream of making a name for yourself in the arts, Reprise is about the joys and sufferings of that quest: It is a Jules and Jim for the punk-rock generation.
06/12/08
Top Critic
The highs and lows of getting one's first book published are intricately and delightfully examined in Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mature feature debut.
06/12/08
There's less than meets the eye to Joachim Trier's Reprise, but the loose, limber visual style gives the picture a certain panache.
06/09/08
Joachim Trier's brash cinematic sampling draws on diverse sources yet it spins something defiantly fresh and original.
06/08/08
The jagged energy of this film's opening and closing moments leave you wondering where it might have gone and what it might have been.
06/06/08
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The word 'Reprise' may mean recurrence, but Trier's fleet, joyously intellectual film comes at us like anything but a retread.
06/06/08
Top Critic
Drawing inspiration from the young-artists-in-angst tales of Godard, Truffaut and the French new wave, Joachim Trier's Reprise is both a charming homage and a vibrant work in its own right.
06/05/08
Top Critic
Anguished and ambitious, the man-boy writers in Joachim Trier's Reprise imagine themselves into alternate lives.
05/31/08
The movie is enjoyable for its flashy surfaces--the witty editing, the narrative forecasting, the droll omniscient voice-over--but as drama it seems superficial.
05/30/08
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Reprise director Joachim Trier uses flashback and fantasy sequences to develop character. He has created an honest accountability to those going through their early 20s or those who remember it.
05/27/08
Told in the subjunctive, this psuedo-existential hogwash, with two protagonists I didn't give a fig about, gives a new meaning to the word 'slow'.
05/23/08
Reprise has a smart and knowing script and will compel audiences to reflect on themselves at that age.
05/23/08
Top Critic
It's an invigorating brew of dynamic visuals, quicksilver emotions, playful storytelling and chic, good-looking actors.
05/23/08
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