A workshop on Joachim Trier’s The worst Person in The World where we dig into a few scenes. Not just any scenes — but ones that turn indecision into something you can see and feel on screen.
If you’re tired of film analysis being something you passively consume—
in podcasts, audio commentaries, video essays—
and want to actively see for yourself
how a film is actually working on you…
Would you like to come to a small, guided workshop on The Worst Person in the World that I’m running on Monday?
You, making time stop to run on over (metaphorically speaking) to Zoom to dig into this with me.
For the record, this is not one of those workshops that:
😬 Costs hundreds of dollars or goes on for days
😒 Expects you to sit quietly while I lecture, and wonder why you showed up live
😰 Requires you to speak when you’d prefer to listen
👋 Or leaves you thinking, “Thanks for your opinion / insight” — because it’s just as passive as a podcast or audio commentary
Instead, this is a 90-minute close reading of a few scenes in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World.
Not just any scenes — but ones that turn indecision into something you can see and feel on screen. And we’ll break them down step by step.
It IS about Renate Reinsve’s performance, but it’s not PRIMARILY about her performance.
The workshop is a space where you’ll be:
☺️ In a room with no more than 19 other film enthusiasts
🍿 Rewatching wordless scenes that you wouldn’t normally watch next to each other
🕵️♀️ Noticing a small detail — something you might have missed the first time
👀 Then seeing how that same pattern shows up again somewhere else
👏 Realising how those moments are working together to create that feeling of indecision — and seeing more clearly how decisions and indecision get built on screen
(Trier didn’t invent the wheel. He just does it very well.)
This is just a rough outline of what happens in the session, by the way.
There’s zero expectation that you’ll speak — you’re very welcome to just listen.
I’ll be guiding you through what to look for, so you’ll be watching, thinking, and following the thread as we go —
and you can share what you notice if you like.
Even when something feels obvious to say, that’s often where things open up.
Because we only have 90 minutes, this isn’t a free-for-all ‘general’ discussion about the film.
It’s tightly focused around a single, central question: what does indecision look like?
The goal is that you have a genuinely enjoyable 90 minutes thinking about film —
looking closely at a few scenes in a way you don’t usually get invited to.
And you’ll leave with an answer to this question:
What does indecision look like on screen — and how is that feeling being built, moment by moment?
Sound like a good way to spend an evening?
Consider this your official invite to…
Indecisions and revisions
A guided workshop on how indecision (and decisions) take shape in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World
Monday, May 4
1pm-2:30pm ET
Live on Zoom — recording available.
🎟️ $65 USD
Only 20 seats available
Just so all the nitty gritty details are in one place—
Here’s what will happen on the day…
You’ll join the Zoom waiting room a few minutes early so we can start right on time.
And we’ll start with the first scene in the film — it comes before the prologue, so it might not even register as a scene.
From there, we’ll move through a small number of scenes that track Julie’s slow journey away from Aksel —
putting them side by side in a way you wouldn’t normally watch them.
The structure is deliberate: we’ll be asking what’s the same, what’s different, and how those shifts make Julie’s indecision — or decision — visible on screen.
(And yes, you can bet we’ll dig into the scene where Julie runs through the frozen streets of Oslo.)
You don’t need to rewatch The Worst Person in the World just before to attend or make sense of it. But I do recommend you’ve seen the film at least once before.
This is the first time I’m running this particular workshop, but I’ve run other sessions using a similar method. Here’s what people have said:
“It’s really effective to have Alex play a film, stop it every 20 seconds, and then we chat. It’s a really good way of actually looking at how something’s put together, how it works, and what it’s doing.
That’s something this format really gives you that you can’t quite get from just going to the cinema and having a coffee with friends after.
When Alex has already picked out key points where there’s a lot happening with the blocking or the camera movement or something, it really helps you pay attention to those things when you’re seeing them elsewhere in the film — or in other films too.“
— Hazel S., participant in The Long Take and Reel Ruminators
“I was nervous about stepping in and discussing things that I didn’t know much about.
In the end, the atmosphere was accepting and welcoming, so I felt free to join in quite a bit.”
— Sarah Vincent, participant in the Living Out Loud workshop
“I’m now interested in doing more serious, specific scene “study” of the various elements in the director’s filmmaking to recognize what they are really focused on.
I was already learning some of that from Reel Ruminators but now am motivated to do it on my own.”
— Nancy Mills, participant in a pilot workshop on another film
“It has made me aware that one must take a detailed view of the film and not just let it flow when viewing.
I valued looking at small snippets of the film and analyzing them — hearing Alex’s take and everyone else’s.”
— Alice Sundgrund, participant in a pilot workshop on another film
Sound like a good way to spend 90 minutes?
🎟️ $65 USD
It’s capped at 20 people.
FAQs
When and where is it?
Monday, May 4, 1pm-8:30pm ET on Zoom.
That’s 10 am PT, 6 pm UK time, 7 pm CET.
How much are tickets?
$65 USD
How many other people will be there?
I’m capping it at 20, but we might have a smaller group. Even if it’s small, there is still no pressure for you to speak. And if it’s bigger, you’ll still have a chance to speak if you want to.
I would LOVE to come, but I can’t make it at that time. Will it be recorded?
Yes, but I won’t be selling the recording separately. Watching the recording still gives you a structured experience built around helping you notice things in real time — just a bit less participatory.
How is this similar to or different from The Deep Focus?
The workshop is a live one-off event rather than a three-week program to evolve your relationship with a film through an ongoing curriculum with async support.
Whereas in The Deep Focus we spent 90 minutes on a single scene at a time, here we will look at how a few scenes work together to dramatize Julie’s indecision. So there’s slightly less depth and a bit more breadth in one workshop — so it will be a little more tightly guided with less room for exploration.
Otherwise, this workshop is pretty similar to a workshop in The Deep Focus. I’ve chosen key moments to look at. I will screen each sequence for you in short 15-20 second segments, and give you specific things to look for and pay attention to.
If you’re curious about what it’s like to think about and talk about film in one of my programs, this is the quickest and most affordable way to test drive it.
I have another question…
Great! Qs are the best! Email me at contact@seventh-row.com, and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.