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The Worst Person in the World

Original title: Verdens verste menneske
  • 2021
  • R
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
77K
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Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World (2021)
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic loo... Read allThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

  • Director
    • Joachim Trier
  • Writers
    • Eskil Vogt
    • Joachim Trier
  • Stars
    • Renate Reinsve
    • Anders Danielsen Lie
    • Herbert Nordrum
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    77K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    852
    143
    • Director
      • Joachim Trier
    • Writers
      • Eskil Vogt
      • Joachim Trier
    • Stars
      • Renate Reinsve
      • Anders Danielsen Lie
      • Herbert Nordrum
    • 273User reviews
    • 252Critic reviews
    • 90Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 43 wins & 104 nominations total

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    Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt at an event for The Worst Person in the World (2021)
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    Renate Reinsve
    Renate Reinsve
    • Julie
    Anders Danielsen Lie
    Anders Danielsen Lie
    • Aksel
    Herbert Nordrum
    Herbert Nordrum
    • Eivind
    Hans Olav Brenner
    Hans Olav Brenner
    • Ole Magnus
    Helene Bjørneby
    • Karianne
    Vidar Sandem
    • Per Harald
    Maria Grazia Di Meo
    Maria Grazia Di Meo
    • Sunniva
    Lasse Gretland
    • Kristoffer
    Karen Røise Kielland
    • Tone
    Marianne Krogh
    • Eva
    Thea Stabell
    • Åse
    Deniz Kaya
    • Adil
    Eia Skjønsberg
    • Synne
    Ruby Dagnall
    • Young Actor
    Torgny Amdam
    • Director
    Rebekka Jynge
    • Marthe Refstad
    Sigrid Sollund
    • Journalist
    Are Skeie Hermansen
    • Publishing Editor
    • Director
      • Joachim Trier
    • Writers
      • Eskil Vogt
      • Joachim Trier
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    • Trivia
      Prior to the movie, Renate Reinsve was ready to give up on acting to pursue a career in carpentry (Reinsve had then recently renovated a home and fell in love with woodwork). Just one day after making the life-changing decision to quit acting, Norwegian director Joachim Trier surprised her with an impromptu meeting, and together they mused about life, love, among other things. The last time the pair had worked together was over a decade ago, in Oslo, August 31st (2011), where Reinsve only had one line in an insignificant scene. Using their earlier conversation as a basis, Trier subsequently worked on the script for The Worst Person in the World (2021), with the intention that Reinsve would play the lead in it.
    • Goofs
      When Julie and Eivind are in the coatroom at the wedding reception, the hand in which Julie holds her wine glass changes between shots, which also results in the hand she "facepalms" with changing, depending on the angle.
    • Quotes

      Aksel: I always worried something would go wrong, but the things that went wrong were never what I worried about.

    • Connections
      Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Kenan Thompson/Tom Riley/Renate Reinsve/Elena Bonomo (2022)
    • Soundtracks
      I Love Music
      Written by Hale Smith and Emil Boyd

      Performed by Ahmad Jamal Trio

      Published by The Verve Music Group 1970, a Division Of UMG Recordings, Inc.

      Courtesy of Halsco Music Publishers

    User reviews273

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    8/10
    the story of an imperfect woman
    The heroine ofJoachim Trier's latest film 'The Worst Person in the World' (2021) is about 30 years old, but she still hasn't managed to find a profession that would give full meaning to her life, or the man she would like to be with and spend the rest of her life, or what could make her happy. It is, if you wish, the film of her searches and the failure of these searches in a hurried and individualistic world. This contemporary Norwegian counter-heroine is one of the most complex and interesting female characters I have seen on screen in recent years. Renate Reinsve's formidable performance brought her a well-deserved award for female performance at the Cannes Film Festival. This is one of the important reasons, but not the only one for which this film is worth seeing.

    Julie (Renate Reinsve) is an intelligent and intellectually gifted young woman. She starts studying medicine and then gives up, starts studying psychology and abandons this as well, decides to become a photographer and works in parallel and as a bookseller at a bookstore. Her parents are divorced, she is closer to her mother (who is worried about her daughter's un-decisions) while her distant and indifferent father is a negative model that probably makes her wary of relationships with men. And yet she falls in love, not with one man but with two: with a comics book writer and cartoonist about 14 years her senior who wants a child and with a seller at a pastry shop who wants to have fun and maybe to get rid of his previous girlfriend who is more interested by ecology and vegetarianism. Time passes, life advances, but it is not clear in which direction.

    I guess that one of 'Joachim Trier's sources of inspiration are Woody Allen's older and newer films. The organization of the story in 12 chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue, the well-matched use in this case of off-screen voice, the relationship between lovers separated by age gap, the presence of parents in the lives of mature people, all these they reminded Allen. Even the almost exclusively urban setting seems inspired by his films, with a local touch, of course. If you haven't visited Oslo (like me) by the time you finish watching this movie you will feel the desire to visit this city, which looks colorful, sophisticated, and ... warm (most of the story seems to take place in the summer). The location in time is clear, thanks to the pandemic masks that the characters wear in the epilogue. Just count a few years back. There are at least two chapters in the film with original cinematography that fits well into the logic of the story - the imaginary or real encounter between lovers looking for and finding each other with the rest of the world frozen around and the sequence of the 'experimentation' with hallucinogenic mushrooms. 'The Worst Person in the World' is the story of an imperfect woman with an imperfect life, as are the lives of most of us, a woman who is certainly not the worst person in the world, and the film about her is made interestingly and well acted. Recommended viewing.
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    • Release date
      • October 13, 2021 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Norway
      • France
      • Sweden
      • Denmark
    • Official sites
      • Official Site (Japan)
      • Official site (Norway)
    • Language
      • Norwegian
    • Also known as
      • Найгірша людина в світі
    • Filming locations
      • Oslo, Norway(main location)
    • Production companies
      • Oslo Pictures
      • MK2 Productions
      • Film i Väst
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €5,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,034,775
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $138,424
      • Feb 6, 2022
    • Gross worldwide
      • $12,703,104
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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