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Louder Than Bombs

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

SPECIAL PRESENTATION D: Joachim Trier. Norway/France/Denmark. 109 min. Sep 15, 5:45 pm Ryerson Sep 16, noon Ryerson Sep 18, 8 pm, Winter Garden. See TIFF.net. Rating: NNN


As a retrospective of her work approaches, the family of a dead photojournalist (Isabelle Huppert) struggles with their issues.

Reprise director Trier’s first English-language film has a very European feel to it, skipping back and forth in time to follow various lost souls through their damaged lives. Huppert is flinty and unreadable as the doomed shooter, and Gabriel Byrne is very good as her unmoored husband, though Jesse Eisenberg can’t quite sell the underwritten role of their older son, and Devin Druid mopes ineffectually as his kid brother. (Also, Druid’s subplot skews -uncomfortably close to one from American Beauty.)

It’s maybe a little too diffuse to have the emotional impact Trier is after, but there’s half of a great movie in here. 

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