Friday 24 July 2026 21:30
languages : vostFR locations : Place Guillaume II - Knuedler
synopsis
Anders takes a day off from drug treatment to see friends and look for a job.
Trier doesn't allow the bleakness of the material to swamp the film in a miserabilist tone, but he doesn't hold back, either, in revealing every hairline crack in Lie's fragile psyche. He writes his hero into a tight corner, but finds a simultaneously graceful and uncompromising way back into the light.
The A.V. Club
A wonderful, melancholy character piece that's funny and tender, and as fresh as a breath of Oslo sea air.
Empire Magazine
"Oslo, August 31st" is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I've seen.
Roger Ebert
