Kasper Tuxen’s camera utterly adores Reinsve, with alluring close-ups of her extraordinary eyes, which reveal both her need to be with someone and her craving for freedom. Shortly after meeting Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie), an older comic book artist, Julie crashes a wedding party and is instantly drawn to Eivind (Herbert Nordrum); although both have significant others, they dive straight into a gorgeously filmed seduction that involves no touching, wondering whether that counts as cheating. It’s a marvelous scene that questions the very nature of relationships and fidelity and sets the stage for everything that comes next.

Twentysomething documentary-maker Ella Glendining is looking to connect with other people like herself – in some ways a universally relatable quest. But Glendining has to search harder than most: born with no hip joints and short femurs, her condition is so rare that it doesn’t have a name. Anders is getting older and Oslo continues to change, so who knows, maybe we will do a fourth [at some point],” Trier said. Anders Danielsen Lie is brilliant as a young man trapped in a world of his own making in Oslo, August 31st Starring Barry Keoghan as a Talented Mr Ripley type initially dazzled by his smooth college chums at Oxford, Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman could be seen as a sort of cautionary tale for toffs who think it might be amusing to invite a member of the working class into their rarefied milieu.When he started making art in postwar Berlin, this visceral expressionist got banned for obscenity. He is still provocative, as shown by this explicit exhibition of upside down depictions of couples making love.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch [2017], trans. Ingvild Burkey (London: Penguin, 2019). The Texas trio, led by Greg Gonzalez, arrive in the UK ahead of their third album. Recent singles suggest they’re not deviating from their ethereal goth-tinged dream pop, so expect a lot of dry ice and a reliance on mood over movement. MC in the digital streaming era. (For some, like myself, physical media will always be the preferred option for film viewings).The opening weekend of this year’s fest features UK premieres of two recent major works by Rebecca Saunders. The Oslo Sinfonietta introduces Skull, influenced by Haruki Murakami (18 Nov); while Ensemble Nikel and Noa Frenkel bring Us Dead Talk Love, setting texts by Ed Atkins (19 Nov). Andrew Clements SNL alumnus and Portlandia co-creator Armisen is indie comedy royalty and also has a sideline in music (he’s currently bandleader on Late Night with Seth Meyers). Now he merges his twin loves in Comedy for Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome, which wrangles muso observations into crowd-pleasing gags. Rachel Aroesti st, and The Worst Person in the World. The collection is a must-own for fans of these films. Outstanding

Norwegian director Joachim Trier concludes his Oslo Trilogy with the riveting The Worst Person in the World, which is having a preview screening at Lincoln Center on January 28 before opening there on February 4. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film, it is part of a weeklong series that includes the first two parts of the trilogy, 2006’s Reprise and 2011’s Oslo, August 31st, along with works selected by Trier and cowriter Eskil Vogt that influenced them. Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy” – Reprise (2006), Oslo, 31 August (2011) and The Worst Person in the World (2021) – wants to ask the big questions: What is a creative life, an intellectual life? What in art is authentic? Are the pursuit of art and the pursuit of love alike – full of suffering, frustration and disappointment? Is it possible to become an adult and to sustain an adolescent level of obsession with books, films and records? Is it possible to be a bit more sensible as an adult – fewer hangovers, less heartbreak when meeting girls and heroes – without becoming bourgeois? Above all, the trilogy is interested in the struggle to balance an intensity of feeling with the matter of everyday life. It begins with Reprise, a cinematic Künstlerroman in which two young men, Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman Høiner), aspire to be writers of serious literature, and it continues with Oslo, 31 August, a literary adaptation focused on a day, a long night and morning after in the life of a thirty-four-year-old man, Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie), temporarily out from an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre to interview for a role as editorial assistant at a publishing house. The trilogy finishes with The Worst Person in the World, an already beloved romantic comedy, reviewed warmly at its Cannes premiere and now nominated for two Oscars (Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay). Ostensibly influenced by George Cukor and Eric Rohmer, the film is to my mind more reminiscent of Sundance fare like 500 Days of Summer and Netflix’s Master of None. While it is the first film in the Oslo trilogy to centre the existential wandering not of a young man but of a young woman, The Worst Person is also the safest of the three. With Julie (Renate Reinsve), the trilogy finally grows up and gives up – not only on an intensity of feeling but also on the other stuff of life. The Redbreast: A report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next, Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed?I like the idea that one life consists of many short stories,” said Trier. “The literary form made it possible to have all these moments and fragments from a longer period. [The main character] Julie is somehow awaiting her great destiny, waiting for fate to intervene; so putting that into a novelistic scale would mirror that sense of anticipation — and disappointment too.” It’s a coming of age tale for grown-ups who wish they had already done so,” Trier said. “While the classic coming-of-age novel would follow someone in their late teens, this is about someone who turns 30, making life choices as she struggles with relationships and with herself. The return of Wayne McGregor’s all-star interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Thomas Adès’s rich score brings new colours to McGregor’s movement, and Tacita Dean’s transfixing films make the last act a visual feast. Lyndsey Winship Emily Burns’s adaptation will be staged in a custom-built space, designed to pull the audience into the action. Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star as the Bard’s doomed couple, hell bent on the throne.. MG

She had one line of dialogue but we actually [worked on set for nine days],” the filmmaker explained. “She hadn’t really gotten a lead before, so we brought her in and developed the character together.” The Oslo Trilogy is an outstanding collection of three films from filmmaker Joachim Trier: Reprise, Oslo, August Only superficially a reader, Julie is also only superficially a writer, too: all she has to her name is a binned attempt at fiction described by a boyfriend as autobiography and one thinkpiece of the ilk dismissed by Anders in Oslo, 31 August. (Interviewing with a magazine, Anders wryly advises it avoid publishing articles he thinks of as ‘Samantha in Sex in the City seen through Schopenhauer’.) Nonetheless, according to the sporadic voice-over in The Worst Person, Julie’s ‘Oral Sex in the Time of #MeToo’ “sparks lively debate on Facebook”, just as Erik’s Prosopopoeia, according to the third-person voice-over in Reprise “sparks lively debate”. While this is certainly intended as a comment on the changing shape of the public sphere – from serious literature to sex and politics, from newspapers and magazines to Facebook – more interesting, surely, is the discrepancy between the kind of voice Trier and Vogt allow Erik and what kind of voice they allow Julie. In both Reprise and The Worst Person, the voice-over eventually dissolves. Its dissolution in Reprise makes space for Erik to narrate the closing montage of the film: in the future conditional tense, Erik imagines Phillip, his now ailing friend , to be sitting and talking outside a café, not in a hospital but in the world. Dissolution of the voice-over in The Worst Person, however, makes space not for Julie to write, narrate or dream, but for Aksel to rant and lament. The writer of serious literature is permitted the lofty, literary space of the voice-over; the feminist of one thinkpiece is not. Renate Reinsve is captivating as a free spirit unable to settle down in The Worst Person in the World Reuniting Trier’s usual band of collaborators, the film shines the spotlight on lead actress Renate Reinsve, a rising talent in the Norwegian scene who had taken a bit part in “Oslo, August 31st.”Before there was Hollywood icon Cary Grant, there was Bristol boy Archibald Leach, who had a deeply traumatic childhood. Made in collaboration with Grant’s daughter and ex-wife, this Jason Isaacs-starring biopic traces the actor’s radical transformation from one man to another. RA