
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
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| New York TimesManohla DargisAn exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry -- for life and meaning and immortality, and for other young and restless bodies -- Reprise is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoJoachim Trier's brash cinematic sampling draws on diverse sources yet it spins something defiantly fresh and original. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezIts playful approach to chronology and voice-over narration serves to amplify its themes instead of coming off as a show-off trick. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin... film full of wry comments and textural gestures - Trier mixes film stock and references to MTV-style jump cuts and the French New Wave (Truffaut's Jules and Jim is an obvious point of reference) to the extent that the pyrotechnics threaten to b |
| Paste MagazineTim BashamIts fresh opening combined with the satisfying resolution in the final 20 minutes help to compensate for a fizzling mid-section. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertIt's an invigorating brew of dynamic visuals, quicksilver emotions, playful storytelling and chic, good-looking actors. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrReprise is exceptionally smart about the crushing expectations brought to the table by those who love us. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsGlenn WhippThe movie also contains many moments of joy and humor, folded into a fantastic, shifting structure that keeps the film wildly alive. It's an impressive first film. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorReprise--a masculine story whose women come off best--is less a hermeneutic finger in your face (though it aims wonderfully low blows at literary celebrity) than a savage, funny, tender, tragic, and strangely beautiful riff on growing up in a broken world. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThe picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic. |