Actor · Director · Screenwriter

Joachim Trier

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Room 999

Lubna Playoust · 2023

Room 999 (2023) is a French documentary directed by Lubna Playoust, filmed in a single hotel room with thirteen international filmmakers — including Cronenberg, Wenders, Farhadi and Ramsay — speaking freely over one day. Shot by Marine Atlan and scored by Pierre Rousseau, it offers no narration, no subtitles for overlapping dialogue, no biographical context. Its rigour lies in restraint: fixed framing, natural light, unedited duration. It captures conversation not as argument but as collective thinking-in-motion — hesitant, contradictory, embodied. A film about presence, not position.

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Sentimental Value

Joachim Trier · 2025

Joachim Trier’s 2025 drama Sentimental Value follows sisters Nora and Agnes as their estranged father Gustav returns to Oslo to film a project rooted in their grandmother’s wartime trauma. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, it traces how grief, ambition and memory circulate through performance, architecture and silence—without offering catharsis or easy resolution.

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The Worst Person in the World

Joachim Trier · 2021

Joachim Trier’s 2021 Oslo-set drama follows Julie, a woman in her late twenties drifting between careers and relationships, as she navigates love, loss, pregnancy, and grief. Anchored by Renate Reinsve’s layered performance and Kasper Andersen’s naturalistic cinematography, the film uses a chaptered structure and subtle tonal shifts to explore self-perception, time, and the weight of expectation — without moralising, resolving, or explaining.