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29.09.2006
Reprise Norwegian Oscar Entry 2006
In an unusually strong film year with several potential candidates, the Norwegian Oscar committee has decided to select Joachim Trier’s feature debut, Reprise, as Norway’s contender for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. Publisert: 29.09.06 | Sist endret: 17.11.06
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Reprise is a humorous film about friendship and madness, love and disasters, and youthful recklessness which collides with the world of harsh reality.
The film had its world première at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this summer, where it won for Best Director and received the international film societies’ Don Quijote Prize. The day after its local release (8 September) it went to Toronto – North America’s most important festival – where 900 attending press gave Reprise the Discovery Award. Next it will screen in the London festival mid-October.
“We have great confidence in this year’s candidate – it is unusual, poetic and exciting, and gets to the audience from the very first moment” said chairman of the committee, head of department Jan Erik Holst, of the Norwegian Film Institute.
Joachim Trier was educated at the National Film and Television School in London, and he has previously won numerous prizes for his shorts. He scripted Reprise with Eskil Vogt, a graduate from La Femis film school in France, where he is currently working on a feature film project. The film was produced by Karin Julsrud, for 4 ½ Productions.
The nominations for Best Foreign-Language Feature will be announced on Tuesday, 23 January – the 79th Academy Award ceremony will take place on Sunday, 25 February, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Norway was last represented in the final race by Petter Næss’ Elling in 2001
The Norweghian Oscar committee 2006:
Jan Erik Holst (chairman), head of department, Norwegian Film Institute
Producer John M Jacobsen
Producer Olav Øen
Director Elisabeth Sjaastad
Director Hilde Heier
Film critic Vibeke Johnsen
Head of International Relations, feature films Stine Oppegaard, Norwegian Film Institute
Related information:
- Reprise
- Oscar
- 61 films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film category
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