Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier)

[Stay Puft]

LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Dir. Joachim Trier



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I saw this at TIFF last year so my memory is a little fuzzy. I loved it, but Oslo, August 31st is still comfortably Trier's best film.

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This is streaming over on Amazon Prime now, and I'll basically second SP's blurb. It is another in a long line of films that tracks the derailment of male family members, but Trier brings such specificity and detail to whole passages that the more trodden material still goes down smoothly. There's an intelligence to where so many of the tangents go, and the film reorients itself to non-linear time in interesting ways, so that the younger brother's girl problems still resonate even if they're far more cursory than everything else.

Solid cast, and solid framing. Just wanted a teensy bit more apology from the younger brother over the spitting incident, which is decidedly the most violent thing in the film.

Oslo, August 31st is still the superior film for Trier, but this does interesting things with narrative.