THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD 15

★★★★★ OUT 25 MARCH CINEMAS

Enter Fleabag into your search engine of choice and the Norwegian equivalent comes back as ‘Loppepose’. A far more elegant translation than that, though, comes via this terrifically moving and wildly amusing romantic dramedy from Thelma (2017) helmer Joachim Trier, a conclusion to an Oslo-set trilogy which began with his 2006 debut feature Reprise and continued five years later with 2011’s Oslo, August 31st.

Chances are you are more familiar with the work of Trier’s distant relative Lars than you are with. Yet prior knowledge of his oeuvre is certainly not needed to appreciate a film whose endearingly flighty hero Julie (the sublime Renate Reinsve) makes Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hedonistic café owner look like a paragon of virtuous restraint.