Joachim Trier movie to main competition in Cannes – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): This year’s program for the Cannes Film Festival, which runs on the stack about a month is out.

The Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s international debut “Louder Than Bombs” is one of 15 films participating in the main competition and vying for the prestigious Palme d’Or.

– Having worked on this film for several years, it is the incredible fun for us to present it in Cannes, tells Trier in a press release sent out by the Norwegian Film Institute.

Started with stack

-Although “Louder Than Bombs” started in Oslo as a stack of paper with ideas Eskil Vogt and I sat and pondered, we have always wanted to create an international film. Cannes is the perfect place for this film to face the world, he said.

The film was recorded in New York last year and has Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid in lead roles. It is produced by Thomas Robsahm for Backlighting and going to the cinema in Norway in October.

– That Joachim Trier represent Norway in the main competition at Cannes is a great recognition, and underlines that there has been an internationalization of Norwegian film . Being taken out in competition with the ultimate in film art is in itself one of the largest representations one can get as a filmmaker, says director of the Norwegian Film Institute, Sindre Guldvog.

It has not participated some Norwegian film in the main competition at Cannes since Anja Breien “legacy” in 1979. Former Norwegian participants have been Arne Skouen with “emergency landing” (1952) “Circus Fandango” (1954), “It burns in the night” (1955) and “Nine Lives “(1958), Erik Løchen with” Raiders “in 1960 and Nils Reinhardt Christensen with” Line “in 1961.

Trier’s previous film,” Oslo, August 31st “, was however shown in Cannes in 2011 as part of the side program.

Woody and Amy

The glamorous film festival – possibly the world’s most prestigious show your movies – go this year kicked 68 time, with the brothers Coen brothers – the filmmakers behind “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski” – as jury presidents.

The new “Mad Max” movie, play the movie “Amy” Amy Winehouse Pixar film “Inside Out” and the new Woody Allen film “Irrational Man,” with Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone are among the films shown outside competition. Allen has not been to Cannes on a number of years, despite his ongoing film production, and is known for refusing to participate in the hunt for the Palme and other festival prices.

– I could unfortunately not persuaded him to participate in the competition, but I got a chuckling on the phone when I asked, said festival director Thierry Fremaux when he announced the program at a press conference today.