Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspectiveAv Dag SødtholtAs so often in films, Louder Than Bombs is not a dissertation, but a meditation on its themes and motifs. Seen in isolation, words and deeds may seem unexceptional – it is as a whole that Joachim Trier film takes flight.
Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?Av Dag SødtholtZeitgeist is replaced by timelessness, chamber music by a symphony. The systematically unpredictable Thelma is Joachim Trier and his team's most sonorous, lyrical and adventurous film.
Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple mindsAv Dag SødtholtThe cat-and-mouse sessions between psychiatrist and patient form a thrilling acting laboratory, where M. Night Shyamalan's fundamentally static set-ups are done with rigour and discreet invention. Bonus: film references.
International EditionMy Sweet, Frigid Little Girl: Some Thoughts on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan [6]Av Dag SødtholtRuminations on sex, narcissism, mirrors, thematic reflections, melodrama and patterns in Black Swan. [6]
