Rent Reprise (2006)

Random meandering scenes of young Norwegians all allegedly want to be authors... - Reprise review by PV

This director made the best film about addiction to hard drugs ever made - 'OSLO 31 AUGUST'. But his later films have always disappointed as does this.

If you sent the script of this to a producer to try and get it made, you'd get nowhere as the voiceover tells, the action does not show, and it flits around from one character to another going nowhere. Not sure I believe these young men would be authors either.

I like the actors both Anders and Odd-Magnuss, all good. Sometimes it is fun. But ultimately, it is a film of random scenes, some of which are of interest and others of which drag badly.

So 2 stars

There is a short film made by the director at the UK National Film School on the extras which is also rather pointless.

Over-hyped - Reprise review by Alphaville

Trier’s first film – a sub-novelle-vague take on a young author who becomes psychotic. It’s slow, not very interesting, often confusing as it jumps back and forth in time, and goes nowhere. It has its moments if you can be bothered to get into the characters, but it’s hardly worth the effort. And don’t be misled by the fast-edited trailer, which has a dynamism the film sorely lacks.