'The Worst Person In The World' is a achingly precise portrait of young adulthood
In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's film, Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman who can't decide who she is. As she finds out, she makes mistakes that inspire an ache of rueful recognition.
by Glen Weldon
Feb 04, 2022
2 minutes
It's a setup, that title.
When we meet young Julie (Renate Reinsve), she's in the process of cycling through different career prospects (surgery, psychology, photography) and romantic partners. We wonder: Does filmmaker Joachim Trier intend for us to see the blithe caprice with which she abandons one discipline/lover and immediately takes up another as a character flaw? A signal that Julie is, in fact, a terrible person?
But as we
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