A talk with Joachim Trier

The Norwegian film director Joachim Trier

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Truls Lie
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The Norwegian film director Joachim Trier talks with the monthly newspaper Ny Tid (Modern Times) about what life experiences and thinking is needed to make films like his two last ones – “Louder than Bombs” and “Oslo 31. August”.

An in depth interview about the war photographer, the mis/use of images now and before, why suicide is such a topic in his last films, postmodernism, his grandfather Erik Løchen, Tarkovsky, nihilism … and especially his premiered film LOUDER THAN BOMBS.

See also the interview written in Norwegian in the issue of Ny Tid September 2015

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