JOACHIM TRIER: AN AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE RETROSPECTIVE

The American Cinematheque will celebrate the Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, Joachim Trier with a tribute featuring most of his movies to date beginning on January 2nd to January 8th. There has been plenty of buzz surrounding his most recent film, "Affeksjonsverdi (Sentimental Value)" which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, selected as the Norwegian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, was awarded or nominated for several film critics prizes and received seven nominations for the upcoming Golden Globe Awards. Trier and his long-time collaborator, Eskil Vogt (who has co-written all of Trier's films) will be in-person for a special screening of "Sentimental Value" on January 7th at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. They will also be appearing together following the screening of their previously acclaimed film from 2021, "Verdens verste menneske (The Worst Person in the World)" on January 8th at the Los Feliz Theatre in Los Angeles.

The work of Trier tends to be intimate ruminations involving romantic relationships, memory and an arduous search for a sense of identity. His arresting films are filled with dark moods, darker humor and subdued emotions while visually highly stylized yet naturalistic in tone.

Trier came from a family that had been involved in cinema with his father working as a sound technician and his grandfather was an experimental filmmaker in Norway. He first got involved with film himself by shooting and editing his own skateboarding videos. Trier later enrolled at the European Film College in Denmark and then the National Film & Television School in Britain. It was during this time that he made several short films with one, "Proctor" winning Best British Short Award at the 2002 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Trier went to work on his feature film debut, "Reprise", released in 2006, about two friends who both want to become writers but whose lives take on different paths. This well-received film would go on to be selected as Norway's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. "Reprise" became the first feature in Trier's Oslo trilogy, a trio of standalone films all set in the Norwegian city, which was followed by "Oslo, August 31st" in 2011 and concluded with "The Worst Person in the World". Trier also directed "Louder Than Bombs" his first English-language film, the supernatural thriller, "Thelma", and the documentary "The Other Munch".

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Joachim Trier: An American Cinematheque Retrospective