Another of those stylized films that is afraid of melodrama, about the grief of a father and his two sons on the occasion of an exhibition organized in honor of the wife and mother, a famous war photographer, killed in a car crash two years earlier .
Directed by Norwegian Joachim Trier. With Isabelle Huppert making faces as a hook and figurehead in the role of the mother photographer, Gabriel Byrne as a widower, former actor and teacher, Jesse Eisenberg, as the eldest son, recent father but with doubts, Devin Druid as the unbearable youngest son isolated with his father and Amy Ryan, as the father's colleague and lover, perhaps the only character who evokes some empathy.
While the ghost of the mother and her motivations flies over as an intrigue, everything about the characters (and the film) is so listless and measured that, frankly, nothing happens. (reminds me of that Manchester by the Sea style)
Nor does the broken temporal structure with flashbacks help to create any dramatic progression.
Directed by Norwegian Joachim Trier. With Isabelle Huppert making faces as a hook and figurehead in the role of the mother photographer, Gabriel Byrne as a widower, former actor and teacher, Jesse Eisenberg, as the eldest son, recent father but with doubts, Devin Druid as the unbearable youngest son isolated with his father and Amy Ryan, as the father's colleague and lover, perhaps the only character who evokes some empathy.
While the ghost of the mother and her motivations flies over as an intrigue, everything about the characters (and the film) is so listless and measured that, frankly, nothing happens. (reminds me of that Manchester by the Sea style)
Nor does the broken temporal structure with flashbacks help to create any dramatic progression.