Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx This film follows a group of friends, the nucleus of which are two young authors, Phillip and Erik. They're devotees of Sten Egil Dahl, a made-up literary doyen. They've grown up saving lunch money to buy his books and harbour desires to match his exploits. Despite being sharp young men, under their, admittedly brilliant posturing, they are subject to the same emotional problems as other young men of their age, they just have superb spiel to camouflage it. The posture involves encyclopedic knowledge of punk and post-punk music, understated yet highly deliberate image crafting using clothing from the likes of Fred Perry and punk-compromise hairstyles, as well as cine-literacy and knowledge of the canon of avant-garde literature. A more level-headed view would be that they're quite well off, complacent, and participating in another variation of consumerism. But I have some level of appreciation for people who are able to create their own world when they find they don't like the one everyone else lives in. An anthropologist might view their behaviour as comprising a sexual strategy.Erik and Phillip have different amorous complications. Erik has the fairly misogynistic idea that as a young writer, his girlfriend will impede his talent, that there is no intellectual value in relationships (his friend Lars refers to women lulling one into a life of nice dinners and TV series). Phillip falls victim to obsessional love. The ghost of the nouveau roman is in the workings of this movie. Books from both Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet are on bookshelves in the movie. As well as overt games with style and structure in the movie, both authors were concerned with obsessional love. The movie shows Phillip and Erik watching Marguerite Duras' short film Césarée, accompanied by the perfection of Amy Flamer's violin score. The movie is about an intense all-consuming love and ends with the line "L'endroit s'appelle Césarée / Cesarea. Il n'y a plus rien à voir. Que le tout" Duras' narration of her own text refers to a love story from antiquity, between Berenice Queen of the Jews, and Titus, Emperor of Rome, she says that nothing is left, except for everything, the whole. The permanent has remained, the self-consuming love of Berenice. Phillip it's clear, has connected to the movie more than Erik.One has to wonder how many references Joachim Trier has made in this movie, Cesarée is quite the obscure film (by absolute fluke it's also my favourite film). The moment in the film is meaningless if you're not one of the handful of people on the planet who will have seen both films. There are levels and levels of textual games in this movie and although I'm not usually won over by these things, Reprise is a masterpiece in those terms. There's a narrator of obscure and paradoxical identity, flashforwards, alternative timelines, passages of uncertain chronological placement, implied but uncertain sections and a plethora of textual references.One is sometimes tempted to doubt the worthiness of the two authors. Geir for example is not of the same alert intellectual character as the others in the circle of friends, and it's suggested he's tolerated because he's good at getting tickets for Kommune gigs (an invented band). However, the movie gradually reveals a lot of warmth under the sneers and insults this group trade.The soundtrack is particularly good here, in particular Le Tigre's Deceptacon and Georges Delerue's iconic Theme de Camille from Godard's movie Le Mepris.Kept my eyes open long after midnight which is rare.

Hunky Stud I have watched many many movies, this movie is so boring! It failed to catch my attention. Whenever I watch a boring movie like this, I just let it play on the TV and read something else at the same time. Even though I don't speak that language, I don't need to read the subtitles all the time.This movie is definitely overrated. I have never seen a movie from Norway before. And I checked it out from the library because it has over 7 rating! I thought that it must be good, but I was totally wrong. I usually try to watch all the things on the "special features", too, but I didn't watch all of them for this DVD.This movie is not coherent. It jumps from places to places. And it is also confusing. For example, one of the guy was riding a bike, and he was counting from 10 to zero. Then all of sudden, after he counted to zero, he didn't even park his bike, he was already inside a room? I don't know why he keeps counting at the end of the movie.

Roland E. Zwick The Norwegian drama, "Reprise," is the first feature-length work by Danish-born director Joachim Trier - a premier effort that bodes great things for his future as a filmmaker. He is clearly alive to the possibilities of the medium, as reflected in the original, highly idiosyncratic style he brings to the film. Trier deftly employs many of the tools of the filmmaker's trade - narration, flashbacks, flash forwards, near-subliminal quick cuts to show imagined events, etc. - to convey his story. Yet, rare for a newcomer, Trier never indulges in any of these "tricks" for their own sweet sake or to call attention to his own ingenuity; they are always placed at the service of the material, never the other way around. Best friends from childhood, Erik and Phillip share the hope of one day becoming writers whose works will go beyond the merely commercial to challenge the status quo - thereby earning them the coveted status of "cult" authors. As it turns out, Phillip's novel is published, but Erik's is not, yet Phillip winds up paying a price for his success, namely an emotional breakdown that has Erik performing a near-round-the-clock suicide-prevention watch on his friend. Meanwhile, Erik continues on with his writing, experiencing success and disappointment - both professional and personal - along the way.Erik and Phillip are both extremely complex characters, and Trier provides no penny-ante analysis to make them more easily understandable for the audience. Sometimes it's hard to tell what exactly it is that is bothering the two, except that, in Philip's case at least, it might be actual mental illness that lies at the root of his problem. Like many creative types, Erik and Phillip seem incapable of not over-analyzing and over-intellectualizing every single aspect of their lives, often resulting in a chronic dissatisfaction with themselves and the world around them. As writers, they become obsessed with trying to convey every single nuance of life through language, and when they fail at that endeavor - as they inevitably do - the only viable option left for them seems to be either depression or madness. As a consequence of all this, their relationships with women don't work out - and even their own longtime friendship threatens to come apart at the seams the deeper they go into brutal self-awareness. As Erik and Phillip, Espen Klouman-Hoiner and Anders Danielsen Lie give supple, sensitive performances, as does Viktoria Winge as Phillip's on-again/off-again love interest. The screenplay is rich in texture and sophisticated in theme, while the film-making itself sparkles with bold creativity and unfettered imagination.As touching as it is thought-provoking, "Reprise" is a remarkably accomplished and assured piece of film-making - especially coming from a first timer.

Joseph Sylvers Good direction, great soundtrack, dialog, editing, a surprisingly full movie from a first time director.Two Norwigian friends in their early twenties Philip and Erik, submit there first manuscripts on the same day, one is accepted and becomes a...(read more) critical darling, the other swims in a sea of rejection letters. In the first five minutes we see at least two altered timeliness of what might have happened to these characters had they both been accepted or had they both been rejected, Run Lola Run style in accelerated montage lead by voice over.The world which could have been, is then followed by six months later, when Erikis getting out o mental institute after a having suffered a breakdown sometime before, Philip is sticking with him, keeping a spare key, making sure he takes his medication on time, and still trying to get his own work published, which it shortly is.Erik and Philip, and their motley crew of friends like the the crude Morten singer of such classic punk songs like "Fingerfucked by the Prime Minister", and the intellectually over-zealous "Porno Lars", all hang out and well just hang out.Erik is trying to recreate his obsessive relationship(against dr's orders), going as far as to meticulously re-create a trip they took to Paris. Philip is debating whether or not to dump his girlfriend so he can sew his whitely oats, and trying to escape the shadow of Eirk and their hero Stein Egl Dahl, their favorite author who also happens to live in their home town.As the title suggests, the film is about these characters trying to re-create, re-capture the past, which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Are you holding onto your dreams or are you clinging to them, are your friends a support group or a crutch to keep out the "real world", do you really love her, or is she just an obsession, should you leave him, or are you just selfish. Is there any way to escape cliché, and live "genuinely"? These are questions which are especially pertinent to the coming of age twenty somethings in the film, but they are universal questions everyone probably at numerous times in their life will have to face. And this film captures them, the highs, the lows, and the cream filled centers...good stuff.