Cannes 2011: Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier, Un Certain Regard

By Fiona | May 9, 2011 | Cannes Film Festival, Movie Photos, Movie Trailers (0) Comment

Cannes Film Festival is coming, and one of the titles we’ll have a chance to watch in the Un Certain Regard category is Oslo, August 31st.

This is a new film by Joachim Trier and the team behind the highly acclaimed Reprise – inspired by the cult novel Le feu follet.

Described as a portrait of contemporary Oslo, the movie is actually a visually striking and quietly shattering drama about a man in deep existential crisis.

Here’s the Oslo, August 31st synopsis part:

“Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, walking around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long while.

Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways already is over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, of a new life, with the hope to see some future by morning…”

Movie stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava and Petter With.

We wish them good luck!