At the beginning

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Movie
German title At the beginning
Original title Recapitulation
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 2006
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Joachim Trier
script Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
production Karin Julsrud
music Ola Fløttum ,
Knut Schreiner
camera Jacob yours
cut Olivier Bugge Coutté
occupation

Auf Anfang (original title: Reprise ) is a Norwegian film from 2006. It is the first full-length feature film by Joachim Trier , who also developed the script together with Eskil Vogt. The main characters are Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner and Viktoria Winge. The film was the 2006 Norwegian Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film .

action

Erik and Phillip, 23, dream of becoming writers. Erik is rejected by a publisher. He seems to lack the talent. At the same time, Phillips manuscript is accepted. The young man becomes a household name in the Norwegian literary public overnight and meets Kari, who becomes his girlfriend. Six months later, Erik and his friends visit Phillip in a psychiatric hospital to take him home after a long treatment. Writing is the last thing Phillip thinks about now. Erik has not given up his dream and tried to persuade his friend to sit down at his desk again. Philip, however, is more interested in his ruined love affair with Kari back to the beginning to bring.

background

The narrative technique in the film, which uses black-and-white recordings, a hand-held camera, imaginative image montage and voice-overs , is influenced by François Truffaut and the French Nouvelle Vague .

reception

Michael Meyns from programmkino.de thinks that director Joachim Trier is "planning a lot - sometimes too much -" with his debut film. In the beginning "an ambitious film that sometimes threatens to fail because of its own demands, but is always saved by its actors".

Joachim Kurz (Kino-Zeit.de) describes the beginning as "... a breathtaking film, a bold, fast experiment in content and form that touches on, deconstructs and reassembles a number of genres". Director debutant Joachim Trier juggled "virtuoso (...) with different levels of perception and consciousness, is sometimes profound, almost philosophical, then again casual and banal, but never boring, but always at speed." He gives his characters "emotional depth and truthfulness" and he would be "a very hot candidate" "if there was a prize for fresh, new and courageous storytelling".

“The dynamic debut film also adopts a formally confident approach to the playful handling of its protagonists, whom it observes in great detail in their search for themselves. Again and again he breaks the linear narrative flow and skilfully counteracts melodramatic developments with an authorial, ironic narrative voice and the use of the subjunctive. "

- Short review on filmdienst.de

Awards

The film has received a number of awards at international film festivals.

In the beginning it was also shown - outside of the competition - at the recognized Sundance Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Programmkino.de , accessed on February 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Film review at Kino-Zeit, accessed on February 5, 2016
  3. ^ At the beginning , filmdienst.de, accessed on February 5, 2016