Remember Joaquim Trier‘s The Worst Person in the World? Easily one of the best films of 2021 — among HE’s top five. An excellent character study of a youngish woman (Renata Reinsve) who has no real center and can’t be satisfied with any one partner. It premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival last July, and Reinsve wound up winning the Best Actress award.
Tatiana and I saw it last November. I liked it so much that I begged to be invited to a second screening, but the publicist became white-knuckle terrified when I wrote about the fact that Reinsve closely resembles a younger version of dp Svetlana Cvetko, a close friend, so that was the name of that tune. I was officially shunned for mentioning the resemblance.
Trier’s film played at Sundance last week, and is competing for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. And now, after weeks and weeks of waiting and wondering, it’s finally opening theatrically in the U.S. Four days from now, to be exact — Friday, 2.4, at the Landmark at the Westside Pavillion.
