Synopsis
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
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Cast
- Anders Danielsen LieAnders
- Malin CrépinMalin
- Hans Olav BrennerThomas
- Ingrid OlavaRebecca
- Tone Beate MostraumTove
- Øystein RøgerDavid
- Aksel ThankeTerapeut
- Kjærsti Odden SkjeldalMirjam
- Renate ReinsveRenate
- Anders BorchgrevinkØystein
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
Trier's compassion for what it takes to survive, mixed with the love he bestows on Oslo, is rewardingly profound. - 88
Slant Magazine
The evocation of things ending suffuses the film with melancholy, as Anders increasingly becomes an observant rather than a participant in his own life. - 83
The A.V. Club
Trier doesn't allow the bleakness of the material to swamp the film in a miserablist tone, but he doesn't hold back, either, in revealing every hairline crack in Lie's fragile psyche. - 80
Empire
Talented Norwegian Joachim Trier - distant cousin to the better-known (and Danish) Lars - delivers a wonderful, melancholy character piece that's funny and tender, and as fresh as a breath of Oslo sea air. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Crosses the blood-brain barrier like … like … whatever the drug is, I haven't tried it, thank God. The movie eats into your mind - slowly. - 80
The Guardian
An intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly. - 80
Time Out
Organizing the mercurial emotions and tics is director Joachim Trier, making good on the promise of his 2006 feature debut, the lit-related drama Reprise. This one's even better-it's about the honesty that often takes root in survivors, a rarely explored subject-but Oslo, August 31st is not an easy film. - 80
Village Voice
Matching the precision of the film's title, remembrances of things past-whether destructive or salutary, quickly mentioned or dilated upon-are shaped by just enough exacting detail.
