Your diary date if set and watched status for this film will remain publicly visible if you change the privacy level of this entry. Add members to your Close Friends from their profile. Set your account default in Settings. Oslo Trilogy actor Anders Danielsen Lie, screenwriter Eskil Vogt and film journalist Karsten Meinich take Ella Kemp on a tour of the Norwegian capital as the city wrestles with its sudden status as a cinephile destination.
Cool World is a Journal series exploring the places we see in the movies, through the eyes of local Letterboxd members and filmmakers. In Oslo? Directed by Joachim Trier. I wanted to feel that late-afternoon sunshine, the same rays that landed on the shoulders of Julie Renate Reinsve while she took a moment to have a quiet cigarette on a terrace as her boyfriend Aksel Danielsen Lie launched his new comics series inside.
I had to know how busy those streets were, the ones she sprints down as she freezes time to run across the city for just one kiss with another man. Oslo is a fairly small city, not lacking in cultural heritage, viking artefacts and a-ha , but still somewhat defined by its infancy.
Norway only gained its full independence in the early s, and its capital became the Oslo we know in Until the turn of the millennium, the state owned and therefore influenced the film industry. As teenagers passionate about movies, he and Trier decided to go their separate ways, hone their craft in other countries, and come back to swap notes later. And so these local boys traveled the world only to end up telling local stories.
There were huge building projects going out towards the sea, the opera house had just been built. You see all these neighborhoods being built, and then in Worst Person they are built. Danielsen Lie, who links all three films as the one returning actorβas well as the person who suggested to Trier that there even was a trilogyβdeeply feels the passing of time, as pointed out to him by his own city on film.
