Joachim Trier's award-winning feature film "Oslo, August 31st" will hit New York theaters on May 25th. Main character Anders Danielsen Lie was recently named one of this year's "Breakout Actors" by the New York Times. The film plays at: IFC Center - 323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY - 11:10am - 1:20 - 3:25 - 5:35 - 7:45 - 9:50pm.
Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning.
OSLO, AUGUST 31st is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s second feature film. He made his feature debut with "Reprise", which received numerous international awards, including Best Director at Karlovy Vary and the Discovery Award at Toronto. Joachim was also named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch at Sundance.
Main character Anders Danielsen Lie was recently named one of this year's "Breakout Actors" by the New York Times. Read more here.