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  Review by cheesecake ★★★½ 1

  Trainspotting, with literature instead of drugs.

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  Review by KYK ★★★★ 1

  I think this may become one of my favorite movies on male friendships. So raw and tender and sarcastic and toxic and candid. Joachim Trier, in his bold debut, has accomplished the impossible: stuffing a movie with white guys in Joy Division shirts without making me roll my eyes. 

  35mm.

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  Review by Simone ★★★★½ 3

  I found this to be an extremely impressive debut from Joachim Trier the first time I saw it, and I’m even more impressed upon a second viewing. Reprise is full-to-bursting with life and youthful energy, from high points of exuberance to low points of almost pitiful despair. It's about two friends, Phillip and Erik, who as children have both been inspired to become writers by a reclusive and enigmatic local writer. When they grow up and get published, one after the other, their paths diverge and they no longer have their shared dream to aspire to. It's an emotionally relevant film, but it is the structure and stylistic elements that really push it from great to excellent.

  The opening scene…

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  Review by Kevin Bertolero ★★★★ 3

  I don’t think Philipp or Erik would be this sad if they were exploring each other’s bodies. Just saying.

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  Review by ༉‧₊˚𝐠𝐚𝐲𝐞ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- ★★★★½

  depressed anders danielsen directed by joachim trier is my favourite genre for sure

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 5

  "If I could do what I want
  I'd become an electrician
  I'd climb inside my ears
  And I'd rearrange the wires in my brain
  A different me would be inhabiting this body
  Have two cars, a garage, a job
  And I would go to church on Sunday

  "A diagram of faulty circuitry
  Explains how I was made
  And now the engineer is listening
  As I voice all my complaints
  From an orchestra of shaking
  metal keeping me awake
  I was just wondering if there's
  any way that you made a mistake

  "Because I miss it the way that I miss nicotine
  If it makes me feel better, how bad can it be?
  Well I heard there's a fix for everything…

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  Review by Serena ★★★½

  Everyone at a party going absolutely feral when someone puts deceptacon by le tigre on........... yes I agree

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  Review by ece ★★★½

  you know it’s joachim trier film when you see anders danielsen’s sad face on screen

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  Review by Waqar ★★★★½ 2

  It's pretty astonishing the amount of energy this film exhuberates. It's also pretty astonishing in the fact that it's Joachim Trier's debut feature. I've been meaning to watch his other works for quite some time now but the lack of availability left me with this. And I'm glad. Trier has balls. 

  The style is unconventional. The film is at times frenetic and at times ponderous, reflecting the nature of creativity or the lack of within our two protagonists. The familiar faces, the friendship, the woes, the youthful angst, love, fear and a psychotic episode which paves way for a whole bunch of sombre and poignant moments that are weaved throughout. The acting is incredible and amplifies the moments of social realism which makes an otherwise unrelatable tale have moments of familiar tenderness in it's portrayal of love and longing. And the score, brilliant.

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  Review by Jason Huang (黃擎元) ★★★★

  The scene where he takes a picture on his rangefinder with the lens cap on... oh the struggles of photography... I felt that.

  I mean this in a really good way, but this definitely feels like a debut. Not in a backhanded compliment sort of way, but the film is absolutely full of energy and it's so ambitious. A lot of really bold directorial choices in this. This was the one film from Trier that I thought wouldn't be my thing (based on the synopsis it sounded a lot more pretentious than it actually ended up being), but after literally the first scene, I threw all my worries out the window. Such a creative way to open the film; it…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★

  joachim trier never misses

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  Review by jing ★★★★ 3

  After seeing him in The Worst Person in the World and Bergman Island, I was intrigued by Anders Danielsen Lie’s performances, he seemed to portray his characters with such ease and presence. Joachim Trier’s filmography has been been on my watchlist for a while now—making Reprise the perfect film to dive deeper into both Danielsen Lie’s and Trier’s work.

  Trier’s feature length debut mirrors a stream of consciousness that practically bursts with energy. From its fast-paced editing to its speculative narrator to its frenzied structure, Reprise tackles hang-ups about the past, the what-ifs, and the could’ve-should’ve-would’ves. While there is one, present-tense narrative, the characters often move between past and present, hypotheticals and reality—much like the film effortlessly swerves from frantic to contemplative.

  Even though…