Tonight is the closing ceremony of 64th Cannes Film Festival and as ever the festival wasn't short on talking points though I would say out of the recent years not as hetic as before. Even on the final days of the festival new clips, trailers are appearing and one of those is Joachim Trier's OSLO 31.AUGUST. The young Norwegian director is the nephew of Lars Von Trier and thankfully there is someone making the headlines for the right reasons and at a festival his uncle Lars made his second home (now for the last time after his Nazi jibes). Trier's previous movie Reprise did help his cause a movie that got international acclaim and OSLO 31.AUGUST sees the filmmaker join up with that movie's star Anders Danielsen Lie who isn't a actor on a full time basis as he is a medical doctor by profession and this film film further highlights Trier's fantastic ability to capture the true essence of his movie characters giving them a real human edge to them.
Check out the trailer below and OSLO 31.AUGUST is scheduled for a 31 St August release date, now there's a surprise!
Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn't seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning.
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