Reprise

Name: Reprise
Genre: Drama
Released: May 16, 2008
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge

2008

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Reprise

Movie Details & Credits

Miramax Films | Release Date: May 16, 2008

Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge

Summary: Phillip and Erik stand at the mailbox, two cocky, grinning rebels full of 20-year-old verve and dreams, their whole lives hanging in the balance at this singular moment. Each is about to ship off his first novel to publishers, each is hoping to become a wildly influential cult author, each has a vision of a new life of nonstop intensity,Phillip and Erik stand at the mailbox, two cocky, grinning rebels full of 20-year-old verve and dreams, their whole lives hanging in the balance at this singular moment. Each is about to ship off his first novel to publishers, each is hoping to become a wildly influential cult author, each has a vision of a new life of nonstop intensity, brilliance, romance, and nightclubbing. Fast-forward six months. These reveries have crashed, hard, into reality. Phillip, whose novel garnered instant acclaim and turned him into a mini-celebrity, has had a terrifying breakdown and is just about to be released from a psychiatric hospital. Erik, who never sold his novel, is still pecking away, determined to follow in the footsteps of his undying hero, a reclusive but idolized writing genius, no matter what it takes. Reprise explores not just what happens to Phillip and Erik as they pick up the pieces, but what might have happened to them, what they imagine could happen, what they fear will possibly happen, and why they can't see what's actually happening. [Miramax Films]… Expand

Director: Joachim Trier

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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New York Daily News - Elizabeth Weitzman

Joachim Trier's energetic, inventive debut takes such a novel approach to well-worn themes that it makes most movies look downright lazy. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow

The movie has been compared, with some reason, to the French New Wave. But it's like "Jules and Jim" or "Band of Outsiders" blended with "A Hard Day's Night." Read full review

USA Today - Claudia Puig

With its almost stream-of-consciousness style, Reprise offers a fresh and compelling look at the vagaries of friendship and creativity. Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Kimberley Jones

Post-viewing, I was still coasting on the giddy high of kinetic cinema, only to have the astonishing callousness of its conclusion slowly settle in. It's a better film for it – one only wishes that Reprise on a whole had been of the same mind: a little less cool, a little more cruel. That's where the really good stuff is. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - Peter Rainer

Clear away the annoying avant-gardism and you have a powerful movie about a writer, Phillip, who undergoes a mental breakdown and is pulled halfway back to health by his girlfriend. Read full review

Miami Herald - Rene Rodriguez

Its playful approach to chronology and voice-over narration serves to amplify its themes instead of coming off as a show-off trick. Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

The movie itself is good and shows promise, except for the ending, when Trier shouldn't have been so poetic. Not only does Reprise generate itself, it contains its own review. Read full review

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WalkerP.

May 18, 2008

This is the best film I've seen in ages. Moving and very funny. Great music as well!