Oslo, August 31st
(2011)
Overview
A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.
Director
Joachim Trier
Writers
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Top Billed
Anders Danielsen Lie
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10May 22, 2024
Anders Danielsen Lie offers a really quite intense performance here as the recovering drug addict "Anders". His physicians think he's sufficiently improved to be able to spend a day, unsupervised, in Oslo, with family and friends and to have an interview for a job. Initially it all goes well. He drops in on "Thomas" (Hans Olav Brenner) and his family and is geared up (not literally) for his interview. That's where the wheels come off and we spend… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
NO
Budget
—
Revenue
$1,481,665