Image: Isabelle Huppert in "Louder Than Bombs"
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's "Louder Than Bombs" in the Cannes main Competition.
Anja Breien's "Next of Kin (1979) was the last Norwegian fim in the main comptetion. 36 Years later, Joachim Trier's third feature film, "Louder Than Bombs", starring Gabriel Byrne, Isabele Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid, will have its red carpet screening. .
Trier's excellent last film, "Oslo, August 31st", was screened in the offical Cannes program ("Un Certain Regard") in 2011.Audun EnghNews story on the Norwegian Film Institute website:http://www.nfi.no/english/news/triers-louder-than-bombs-competes-at-cannes
Trier’s Louder Than Bombs competes at Cannes
Published: 16/04/2015 | Edited: 16/04/2015
Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs will be the only Nordic entry in the main competition at the Cannes International Film Festival between 13-24 May
36 years after Norway last had a contender for the Palme d’Or in Cannes – Anja Breien’s Next of Kin (Arven/1979) - Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s third feature, Louder Than Bombs, will screen as the only Nordic selection for the main competition on the Côte d’Azur, which runs between 13-24 May.
“My grandfather Erik Løchen participated with his first film «The Hunt» (Jakten) in Cannes in 1960, in the same programme as Antonioni, Fellini, Bunuel og Bergman, and Cannes has always meant something special to me on a personal level. Cannes is the perfect place for my film to meet the world,” said Trier.
“Trier’s selection for the main competition at Cannes is a great recognition for him as a filmmaker as well as confirming confirming the quality of Norwegian cinema,” added Sindre Guldvog, CEO of the Norwegian Film Institute.
The director’s previous features, Reprise (2002) and Oslo, August 31st (Oslo, 31. August) were both awarded at international festivals, including Toronto and Sundance, as well as being distributed in several territories.
In Louder Than Bombs Trier continues his collaboration with Vogt, who has co-written his films since his short film Proctor (2002). Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid star in the Thomas Robsahm production for the Norwegian producer Motlys, which was shot in New York.
Synopsis
An upcoming exhibition celebrating renowned photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death brings her eldest son back to the family house - forcing him to spend more time with his father and withdrawn younger brother than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, the father Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the wife and mother they remember so differently.
One of the 20 entries vying for the Palme d’Or, Trier’s first English-language film was co-produced by France’s Memento Films, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute. SF Film will release domestically in October; Memento handles international sales.
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Joachim TrierMore about the film and director Joachom Trier:
http://www.nfi.no/english/127516/louder-than-bombs
JOACHIM TRIER (b. 1974) has received international recognition both for his feature film debut Reprise(2006) and his sophomoric featureOslo, August 31st (2011). Known for existential, yet accessible character studies and weaving between dreamscapes and reality, Trier has been hailed as ”sensationally talented“ (New York Times). Selected for the Cannes Official Selection - Un Certain Regard - in 2011, as well as Toronto, Sundance, and numerous other festivals, Oslo, August 31st has also received many awards. Last year, it was nominated for the César award for Best Foreign Film 2013, after reaching over 160.000 admissions at theatres in France. Joachim started filmmaking in 1995, writing and directing several short films, which won a dozen international prizes, while he was attending film school in Denmark and The National Film & TV School, England.
Filmography:
Oslo, August 31st (2011), feature
Reprise (2006), feature
Procter (2002), short
Still (2001), short
Pietá (1999), short
Passport (1998), short
The Transparency of Evil (1996), short
Neglection (1996), short
Fatal Strategies (1995), short
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Presentation of the 2015 Cannes films in competition, in The Guardian.
Peter Bradshaw writes this about the Norwegian entry, "Louder Thn Bonds" by Joachom Trier:
Louder Than Bombs, starring Jesse Eisenberg and written by Eskil Vogt, is the new film by the Norwegian director Joachim Trier (distantly related to Lars von Trier, who like Josef von Sternberg added Von to the family name). Trier’s drama Oslo, August 31st made a great impression in the Un Certain Regard section in 2011. Louder Than Bombs is his first English-language movie, and reportedly a complex, Rashomon-type drama centring on facts that emerge about a war photographer after her death, as a retrospective of her work is being assembled.
Article link: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/apr/16/cannes-2015-british-directors-peter-bradshaw-preview
Cannes 2015: the Brits aren't coming, but I'm still glad to go
Peter Bradshaw
It is always an exciting moment, and not just for trainspotters. The announcement of the Cannes competition list is effectively the beginning of a new film year, and this is the first with the festival’s new president, Pierre Lescure, who is taking over from the legendary, mandarin-figure Gilles Jacob. Although the bullish, vigorous Thierry Frémaux is, of course, the general delegate and prime mover in the choice of films, the choice of jury members and therefore the likely choice of winners. The dominance of Cannes on the international film festival circuit is such that these are the films that will be seen, distributed, talked about and given prizes in the months to come.
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