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SummaryDirector Joachim Trier returns with another modern twist on a classically constructed character portrait of contemporary life in Oslo. Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, The Worst Person in the World examines one woman’s quest for love and meaning in the modern world. Fluidly told in twelve chapters, the film features a breakout perform... Read More

Directed By:Joachim Trier

The Worst Person in the World

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91
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91
98% Positive
46 Reviews
2% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mar 24, 2022
100
The Independent
The Worst Person in the World carries a shimmery feeling of definitiveness to it. It’s the rare piece of art actually invested in why an entire generation can seem so aimless and indecisive.
Feb 4, 2022
100
We Got This Covered
Unsentimental, brutally honest, and staggeringly complex in its execution, intelligent cinema like this is a rarity.
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8.0
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Aug 6, 2026
10
decatur555
The Worst Person in the World is a masterpiece. It achieves something extremely difficult: it does not merely tell a story, but places us completely inside the minds and lives of its characters. When it ends, it does not feel as though we have watched them from a distance. We seem to have lived beside them, made their decisions, felt their doubts and carried away part of everything that happened.Julie is approaching thirty without fully knowing who she wants to be. She changes her studies, career, interests and relationships because every new possibility appears capable of bringing her closer to a more authentic version of herself. It is not that she wants nothing. She wants many different things and fears choosing one because every choice means abandoning all the **** would be very easy to judge her. Julie hurts people who love her, follows her impulses and confuses the need to feel alive with the certainty that she is making the right decision. Yet the film never condemns or excuses her. It observes her with extraordinary intimacy and allows us to understand even the choices we cannot defend.Renate Reinsve is astonishing. She does not seem to be playing Julie so much as living inside her. She can express enthusiasm, selfishness, desire, fear, guilt and tenderness without making the transitions visible. Her face communicates thoughts that the screenplay never needs to explain. It is a performance filled with life and contradiction.Aksel is a wonderful character. He is older than Julie, appears to understand himself more clearly and has built a much more defined life. Yet that confidence also hides his own fears. He knows that time is passing, that he belongs to a different generation and that he may be asking Julie for something she is not yet ready to give.I saw a great deal of myself in him: in the way he loves, in his desire to share what he has learned and in his fear that the distance between two stages of life may eventually matter more than the connection between two people. Aksel loves Julie, but he also understands that loving someone does not mean being able to keep them.Their relationship is beautiful because the film never presents it as a simple mistake. They genuinely love one another. They make each other happy, understand one another and share an intimacy that does not disappear when the relationship ends. But loving someone and living at the same point in life are different things, and the film communicates this without making either of them the villain.Then Eivind appears, representing another possibility. With him there is lightness, novelty and the feeling of beginning again without the weight of earlier expectations. The famous sequence in which the world seems to stop while Julie crosses the city towards him is beautiful. It captures the feeling that, when we desire something intensely enough, everything else can temporarily cease to **** the film knows that no choice permanently resolves who we are. Julie changes relationships while carrying the same uncertainties with her. No other person can organize our life from the outside. Love can accompany, transform or destroy us, but it cannot answer every question on our **** chapter structure is perfect. Each section captures a moment, discovery or wound. Life does not progress here like a perfectly constructed story, but as we remember it: through scenes that seemed small at the time and later explain everything.There are very funny moments, painfully uncomfortable ones and others of overwhelming sadness. Joachim Trier moves between tones without making the film feel fragmented. Comedy does not erase pain, and tragedy never turns it into something solemn. They coexist because that is also how life works.Then the story of Aksel gives the film an even greater depth. What initially seemed to be a story about romantic uncertainty and fear of commitment becomes a reflection on time, loss and all the lives we will never **** final conversations with Julie are devastating. They need no grand declarations or music telling us how to feel. It is enough to watch two people who still love one another and understand certain things too late. The life they might have shared no longer exists, but it cannot be erased **** that point, the film is no longer only Julie’s story. It is also Aksel’s: the story of someone watching the world he knew continue without him, remembering objects, films, music and places that are slowly losing their meaning to everyone else. It becomes impossible not to think of ourselves, of what we leave behind and of the people with whom we might have been happy in another **** title is perfect because Julie is not the worst person in the world. She is someone trying to live without knowing the correct way to do it. She makes mistakes, causes pain, runs away, returns and continues growing. Like almost **** Worst Person in the World is about love, but also age, motherhood, identity, nostalgia,
May 2, 2025
10
Khare
Starring the amazing Renate Rensvie portrays a character named julie who is still figuring out her life as she nears 30s, movie is very well laid out in 12 chapters depecting stages of her life, the script has a refreshing honesty and sheer potency of human emotions laid in a brutally real way, there are certain scenes in the movie which really gets hard to watch as movie deals with a poigant topics of love, loss and death, those scenes stretch long taking their sweet time to portray intensity of those situations, Renata manages to give another mind-blowing performance with breathtaking realism showing staringly observant and potent view of millennial culture, the scenes are very nicely paced with some having sheer silence and other with a beautiful soft heart touching music, showing a very beautiful and heart touching way life can creep up on us
Jan 21, 2022
100
Entertainment Weekly
Worst has no shortage of gorgeous-people problems — more than enough, in fact, to fill 12 cinematic "chapters" — but it vibrates with real life, a film so fresh and untethered to rom-com cliché it might actually reshape the idea of what movies like this can be.
Feb 3, 2022
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The Worst Person in the World acts as a forceful reminder that the entanglements between women and the love interests dancing in and out of their lives matter less than the lifelong relationship we must maintain with ourselves.
Feb 3, 2022
83
The A.V. Club
For all of Trier’s stylistic flair, the best scenes in The Worst Person In The World are unadorned conversations, little pockets of chemistry or conflict. The film peaks with a self-contained romantic episode, beautifully written and performed
80
CineVue
Though the film tries for ironic detachment – twelve chapters with a prologue and epilogue – it ultimately can’t wink away its own heartfelt compassion and sympathy, even as it refuses to provide any trite solutions.
Feb 7, 2022
50
The New Yorker
The movie offers no details about any conflict between domestic and artistic life—because Trier and his co-screenwriter, Eskil Vogt, display no interest in Julie’s artistic development or activity. The Worst Person in the World is driven by a relentless focus on Julie’s personal life, but it’s a focus that remains obliviously impersonal.
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May 29, 2023
10
Nnorvv
For someone who is not norwegian but lives in Oslo, it is a magnificient movie in every aspect.
Jul 24, 2022
10
NickTheCritick
A comedy full of nordic irony, just the way I like it. Trier offers us a light-hearted vision of life as a couple which then turns into a profound reflection on what it means to be mature and make important decisions. A comedy that is almost a tribute to Woody Allen, with a wonderful direction and cinematography. This movie is an alternation of cold and hot vibrations. I had found the previous films of this Norwegian director interesting, but this is really his best one.
Mar 11, 2024
5
ProfAmateur
Basically it's only a story about some people having the normal troubles of life. Many mimimi-Scenes. I think the movie is successful because many people can relate to some situations.
Feb 20, 2023
5
Mauro_Lanari
(Mauro Lanari) If there are 3 levels of phenomenic analysis, the generational, the epochal and the historical, Joachim Trier stops at the 1st one: an accurate description of the existence of millennials and their way of dealing with sex and feelings between births and deceases, pregnancies and terminal agonies. Or perhaps of their way of not facing, if they consider themselves powerless spectators who are just allowed to photograph the reality judged to be immutable. Too many things are left in the background and the most important ones: the comparison with the parental generation, the relationship with the spirit of the time that transversally involves everyone (even if it is those who grew up in that precise period who symptomatize it better), the relevance of the novelties with respect to the constants of History. Obstacles that have undermined the cinematography of who knows how many authors, from Rohmer to Allen to the exponents of mumblecore. Sometimes there is an immediate evidence of this lìmit, sometimes instead years of decantation are necessary and only with a significant chronological distance one understands whether if and how much a work still has something to say to those who come after.
Aug 17, 2022
1
SAN4ES--86
Ужасный, скучный, бестолковый и самое обидное что фильм просто ни о чем. просто пустая трата времени. нет никакой линии, фильм ни о чем не рассказывает, не повествует, нет никаких переживаний, интриги, режиссер потратил время зря.
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Feb 4, 2022
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 5 Wins & 12 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 7 Wins & 10 Nominations
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