International EditionUnbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationshipsAv Dag SødtholtOur in-depth look at M. Night Shyamalan's early films continues with Unbreakable: perhaps the only mainstream Hollywood formalist film, a mass-market movie approached with an unrelenting European art film sensibility.
International EditionThe Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style [1]Av Dag SødtholtA stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film. [1]
International EditionM. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Twelve against timeAv Dag SødtholtAlthough the framing story and twist are surprisingly prosaic, for long stretches of the main body M. Night Shyamalan's Old conjures up a combination of tension, absurdity and chaos that few other films have achieved.
International EditionM. Night Shyamalan’s Glass: Fusion of shardsAv Dag SødtholtAn initial response to the narratively complex and structurally beautiful Glass, which concludes the diverse trilogy of the meditative mood piece Unbreakable and the character-oriented suspense film Split.
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.
International EditionFocus of faith: Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the WorldAv Dag SødtholtA film of wanderings and street-level epiphanies, a romantic comedy ending in stripped-down tragedy, a portrait of the future artist as a young woman.
International EditionThe Unsparing Judgement of Oneself: the Life and Work of Larisa ShepitkoAv Gabrielė LiepaToday, as we watch in awe her fellow Ukrainians’ bravery and refusal to relent, The Ascent, and Shepitko’s life, may give us a clue as to what is worth fighting for.
International EditionInterlinked: Adapting the Cyberpunk World of Blade RunnerAv Isak EngerWhat happens as the cyberpunk elements in Blade Runner are adapted and changed in Blade Runner 2049, brought into both the fictional future Los Angeles, as well as the cultural context of 2017?
International EditionCéline Sciamma’s Petite maman: Portals to the pastAv Dag SødtholtSciamma's fifth feature film is immediately striking in its gentleness as well as emotional and visual beauty, but what lies beneath the apparent simplicity are rich layers of structural echoes and quiet metaphors.
