Oslo, August 31st
Oslo, August 31st Norwegian Oslo, 31. august is a 2011 Norwegian drama film directed by Joachim Trier. It is loosely based on the novel Will O the Wisp by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It won the prizes for Best Film and Best Cinematography at the 2011 Stockholm International Film Festival jury president Whit Stillman described the film as a perfectly painted portrait of a generation. It was one of three films on the Norwegian shortlist for submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Oslo, August 31st has received widespread critical acclaim from both film critics and audiences. Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98 of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 57 reviews with an average rating of 8.210. The general consensus being An upfront study of a drug addict confronting his demons, Oslo, August 31st makes this dark journey worthwhile with fantastic directing and equally fantastic acting. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reports the film has a score of 84. Roger Ebert of the Chicago SunTimes gave the film four out of four stars and said the film is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films Ive seen. Ebert went on to name it the ninth best film of the year in his annual list.
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