(115 mins, 15)
Directed by Joachim Trier; starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Hiner, Viktoria Winge

Reprise, the first movie by Joachim Trier, 30-year-old Norwegian relative of Lars von Trier, is a cockily confident tale of the literary life in the French New Wave style. It centres on two ambitious novelists in their early twenties, from affluent Oslo families. One has early success and goes insane, the other takes a little longer to get going. Both model themselves on an older writer who, after being lionised in his youth, became a recluse and Trier takes seriously the nature of artistic vocation and the problems of balancing it with family life. The constant refrain is "We'd be world famous if we wrote in English". The film has the elegant exuberance of a display of indoor fireworks.