The entire Seventh Row editorial team is here to talk about site favourite Joachim Trier's new film, The Worst Person in the World.This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, Contributing Editor Lindsay Pugh, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe.
On this episode:
- Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions (2:21)
- Related episodes (4:15)
- The World Person in the World and our first reactions (5:39)
- Is Julie the worst person in the world?(19:31)
- The film's structure (27:23)
- The film's style (33:57)
- Julie's relationships (45:06)
- The time freeze scene (56:57)
- The mushroom scene (1:10:42)
- Intellectualizing and romanticizing (1:18:07)
- The retroactive Oslo Trilogy (1:33:38)
- Conclusion (1:49:20)
- Read an excerpt of Lindsay's interview with Renate Reinsve from our upcoming email book Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions
- Sign up to be the first to pre-order Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions, the first book to ever be published on Joachim Trier. You will also receive exclusive excerpts from the book.
- Read Alex's review of The Worst Person in the World
- View our Directors We Love page on Joachim Trier, for extensive information on Trier and his key collaborators, and links to all of our coverage of his films
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- Ep. 107: Another Round and Oslo, August 31st: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction Redux
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