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Special Issue on Louder Than Bombs

To celebrate the release of Louder Than Bombs, the best film of 2016, we published a Special Issue on the film, which included a new feature every day during the week of April 18–22, 2016. Here you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about the film: a two-part interview with director and co-writer Joachim Trier, an interview with cinematographer Jakob Ihre, a review of the film, and an essay on exile in Louder Than Bombs and Oslo, August 31st.


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The header image of this essay shows a still from Oslo, August 31st next to a still of characters from Louder Than Bombs, behind a streak of purple bearing the white text: "Oslo, August 31st at 10".

Alex Heeney / August 30, 2021

There is a world elsewhere: Exile in Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Louder Than Bombs

In this essay, we discuss exile in two Joachim Trier films: Oslo, August 31st's clear cut, fatalistic story of exile, and how that sense of estrangement in …

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Joachim Trier, Louder Than Bombs, Jakob Ihre

Alex Heeney / April 21, 2016

Interview: Cinematographer Jakob Ihre talks Louder Than Bombs

In this interview, cinematographer Jakob Ihre discusses Louder Than Bombs, collaborating with Joachim Trier, his aesthetic influences from Tarkovsky to …

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Review of Louder Than Bombs

Alex Heeney / April 20, 2016

Review: Louder Than Bombs is a deeply empathetic look at family, grief, and memory

Joachim Trier’s sublime English-language debut, Louder Than Bombs, is an engrossing and empathetic look at a family recovering from trauma. Almost a …

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Joachim Trier, Louder Than Bombs

Alex Heeney / April 19, 2016

Joachim Trier talks Louder Than Bombs: Part 2

This is the second part of our two-part interview with Joachim Trier. Read the first part of our interview with Joachim Trier here. This interview is part …

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Louder Than Bombs, Joachim Trier, Jakob Ihre

Alex Heeney / April 18, 2016

Interview: Joachim Trier talks Louder Than Bombs – Part 1

In this interview, Joachim Trier discusses his new film Louder Than Bombs: how he experimented with film form to show us the subjectivity of memory, the …

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