Posted at 3:30 p.m.
Which profession to choose? Who to be a good couple with? To have children or not? Travel or stay? To move away from his family or to attend it reluctantly?
Entering your thirties is a fascinating time in life. It looks like those roads with roundabouts where you have several exit options, otherwise you turn in circles for a long time. A moment that is both euphoric because you are still young and scary because you want to make the right choices before heading towards the middle of life.
Unsurprisingly, the subject has often been discussed, whether in cinema, on TV or in literature.
“I just went through this myself,” said Renate Reinsve, 34, in a videoconference from New York.
It’s a complex moment when you leave things behind, but from which you learn a lot. For me, Joachim’s film is a coming of age film thirties.
Renate Reinsve
Presented in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival and finalist for the Oscars in the categories of best original screenplay and best film in a language other than English, Julie (in 12 chapters) by Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31) received tons of praise. The Norwegian actress also won the prize for best female interpretation at Cannes.
Since then, the good news has been piling up. In France, the film received a rave reviews. Former US President Barack Obama named it to his list of the best movies of 2021. Released modestly last week in the US thanks to distribution from Neon, it raked in $135,042 from four screens in its first weekend. end, a staggering score of $33,760 per screen, notes an article by variety.
In English, the film is called The Worst Person in The Worldwhich amuses Mme Reinvest. For her, this harsh epithet is not an external judgment. With her hesitations and missteps, her Julie feels like the worst person on the planet herself in the first half of the film.
Could Renate become friends with this Julie with a thousand hesitations? On the other side of the screen, M.me Reinsve burst out laughing.
“You know, our job is to dive into our character,” she says. Since the shoot, I have seen the film three times. At first, I would say that it would have been difficult for me to be friends with this woman who does not connect to anything. She’s so afraid of intimacy. She does not open up to anyone. But in the end, yes. At the end of filming, I no longer saw any difference between Julie and me. »
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It must be said that the viewer sees Julie transform little by little as the film progresses. We see her getting to know herself, letting things go, assuming her choices. These changes are obviously caused by a series of encounters, events, which make her think and move forward.
Julie eventually grows old and learns to surrender to chaos. She realizes that she cannot control the things that are happening around her. Not all his plans will necessarily come true.
Renate Reinsve
In the weeks following the film’s release in Europe, Mme Reinsve indicates that several men of her age approached her to talk about the feelings that inhabited her character. “Several have told me of their uncertainties,” she says. They told me they didn’t know what they wanted to do. Women seemed to me more certain of their choices. »
Known in Norway for her work in the theater, Renate Reinsve was herself inhabited by the questions of her character. She who had had a very small role in Oslo, August 31 was seriously considering giving up on her acting career when Joachim Trier called her to tell her that he had written a role to measure for her.
Presumably his plans have since changed. After all, you have to know how to surrender to chaos!
Julie (in 12 chapters) is presented in theaters in the original version with French subtitles and in the original version with English subtitles