MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Andres-Camara 772/5000 There can be nothing more boring, than when a director begins to put plans that have no meaning. The worst thing is that it does not happen only at the beginning and end of the movie if not what happens in many moments.It is a cold movie, especially because at no time do you empathize with the protagonist, who in fact, personally I dislike. I do not understand you at any time. I also do not understand some moments of the film, nor do I know why it ends that night of partying like that, instead of taking advantage of the moment in front of it. That she can see that girl in him, is something that I will never understand.I do not like photography, if there is photography.The address is totally non-existent. He does not know where he's going or how to roll.He is a worthy apprentice to his cousin Lars

tmdaines Oslo, 31. august (2011 - Joachim Trier) ****½Melancholic drama about a recovering heroin addict on day release from a rehab centre. He appears to be making progress in his recovery and seemingly wants to move on with his life. He spends the day visiting old friends, attending a job interview and traipsing around the city, although there is continual sense of a relapse around every corner.The film is an enthralling and moving character study about an individual beginning the first day of his new life or a final one of his current existence. Apparently it is a loose adaptation of Le feu follet by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, but I am not overly familiar with the book aside from knowing of Malle's adaptation.

bashfulbadger I watched this because I read a rave review.Maybe it is realistic. In the sense that reality can be extremely dull.I found it tiresome and completely uninvolving. If you end up caring about any of the characters, you're a better man than I.In presenting someone who's suicidal, it certainly left me wanting to slit my own wrists.Basically, it's a day in the life of a spoilt, self-pitying, self-absorbed twit.I only wish he'd killed himself at the start of the film rather than the end as it would have saved me the tedious torture of watching it.I hope this review saves someone else from wasting time that could be much better spent.

filmalamosa Beautiful and interesting to watch if tragic.Anders is a heroin addict in the last weeks of rehab--we don't know how many times he has been there before--one suspects several due to the cold reception he receives from his family. He is in his early 30s.Having been through this myself I am a pretty good judge of this movie.It is very accurate. The sister who won't see him. Her friend who describes how Ander's mother is trying to give the sister family heirlooms maybe to make up for the money they have had to spend on Anders. The sister doesn't want Anders in the family home alone--but her friend gives him the keys anyway. So real.I loved the truth in this movie. Ander's friend who quotes Proust (a nod to the French origins of the story) and then his wife chastises this pretentiousness perfectly. This friend then admits his life is not so perfect and he really wonders about it--admits he doesn't sleep with his wife--a wonderful one line antidote the typical PC version of marriages.Anders state of mind is partly caused by the depressive blahs of withdrawal but also the stripping away of artifice and pretense from the humiliations of years. The exact truth of everything comes out in this state that is the intelligence of the movie. The scene in the cafe is wonderful....especially the puerile teenage girls wanting to do all these prepackaged "exciting" things--swimming with dolphins-reading a great novel you remember parts of all your life...ad nauseum. It exhausts and irritates you listening to it.Of course I knew Anders was going to OD about 30 minutes from the end that was no surprise. The director does clever things though--you see Anders playing the piano and can't see his hands so you are dismayed to think this wonderful movie is going use that tired cinema technique of showing only the hands playing but then the camera moves very slowly and no---he really is playing it. That somehow authenticates the movie. This movie works beautifully--the initial drowning attempt then the ending at the swimming pool.Probably the best and most watchable "addiction" movie I have ever seen. Plus you get to see scenes of Oslo all of it beautifully filmed. As a non sequitur.... WWII started on Sept 1 so August 31 would have been the last day of an era? Probably a coincidence?RECOMMEND HIGHLY