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Sarah Elizabeth Mintz moved back to New York this month after a seven-year stint in Los Angeles while she was working out Good Girl Jane, her debut feature that just landed with a splash, winning Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Festival as well as Best Performance for star Rain Spencer. In a conversation with…

If the jury press conference for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is anything to go by, we're in for a pretty punchy ride on the Croisette the next few weeks. Iranian director Asghar Fahradi spoke for the first time of a plagiarism suit that was filed against him from his former film student Azadeh…

When The Worst Person in the World premiered in competition in Cannes this year there was the sense of an arrival, notably in the case of its leading lady, Renate Reinsve, who won the festival's award for best actress. In actual fact, the film was closer to a destination, being the third part of an unofficial triptych…

Boasting two Oscar nominations — in the International Feature and Original Screenplay races — Joachim Trier's lauded The Worst Person in the World is continuing a charmed awards-season run that began last July at the Cannes Film Festival, where lead Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize. A humanist story that…

MONDAY UPDATES for Worst Person, Ted K, The Cursed, Strawberry Mansion, and adding The Automat. Neon's standout romance about a young woman in Oslo churning though career choices and boyfriends passed $1 million this weekend on 265 screens, up from 49 in a major expansion. With marketing in high gear and strong word…

After whittling down from 93 country submissions to a shortlist of 15, the Oscars' Best International Feature category has its final five nominees, welcoming some familiar faces, and for the first time, an entirely new entrant. Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom by filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji, is only the second movie…

Neon's The Worst Person In the World racked up a few bests this weekend with a cume of $135,042 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768. The poignant comedy from Norway by Joachim Trier that premiered at Cannes (star Renate Reinsve took Best Actress) has great word of mouth. It's shortlisted…

A decade after making her film debut with just one line in Joachim Trier’s film Oslo, August 31st, Renate Reinsve found a breakout starring role in The Worst Person in the World, a romantic drama that the filmmaker had written with her in mind. “I…was looking for a project to do with her because 10 years had passed…

Joachim Trier, who directed The Worst Person in the World and co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt, said his Norwegian rom-com is epic in scope. Trier spoke with Deadline's Matt Grobar at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday. "We're pretending it's a small story about a young woman trying to figure out what she wants…

Norway has selected Joachim Trier's Cannes hit The Worst Person In The World as its submission to the Oscars' International Feature Film category. The choice was made by the Norwegian Oscar Committee which had earlier shortlisted three pictures, opting for Trier's third installment of the Oslo Trilogy which the…

Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In The World is the closing chapter of the director's Oslo trilogy after Reprise (2006) and 2011's Oslo, August 31. In the Cannes Film Festival competition this year, it’s a look at how one's supposedly best years pass by so quickly you barely realize it. Trier and his stars Renate…

A sharp and poignant look at how one's supposedly best years pass by so quickly you barely realize it, The Worst Person in the World is loaded with freshly observed intimate moments that make up the things of life. For about two-thirds of the way, director Joachim Trier and his co-writer Eskil Vogt keep this study of…