#10 - LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Denmark)
JOACHIM TRIER's feature debut in the English language, LOUDER THAN BOMBS is not his best work, but it is exciting and infectuous nonetheless. The story revolves around the relationship between a father and his three sons, and follows them at around the time they are brought together under the same room shortly before a major exhibition is to pay tribute to their world acclaimed deceased war photographer wife and mother.
LOUDER THAN BOMBS is intuitive and exciting, structured with the impulsiveness of a beat novel, playing with its chronology and shifts in viewpoints but also revealing more cinematic influences that often seem to draw inspiration from more mainstream cinema, reformatted in the distinctive and intuitive arthouse language of Trier that only occasionally suffers from excesses.
GABRIEL BYRNE in the role of the conflicted and confused good natured father struggling to fight estrangement from their sons delivers one of his best performances to date. LOUDER THAN BOMBS is also shot on film, which adds texture to the colours and great general visual appeal.