REVIEW ROUNDUP: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, RIVER
This week’s new releases at the Irish Film Institute on Friday, March 25th 2022 are The Worst Person In The World and River. Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
“A truthful, tender masterpiece about how coming of age has no age-limit — love, for others and for ourselves, is what makes every risk and loss worthwhile.”
5/5 – Empire Magazine
“Trier has taken on one of the most difficult genres imaginable, the romantic drama, and combined it with another very tricky style – the coming-of-ager – to craft something gloriously sweet and beguiling.”
5/5 – Guardian
“The Worst Person in the World carries a shimmery feeling of definitiveness to it. It’s the rare piece of art actually invested in why an entire generation can seem so aimless and indecisive.”
5/5 – Independent (UK)
“Joachim Trier’s fifth feature is a sweet, sad, extremely funny character study that gets to the heart of how it feels to be on the cusp of true adulthood and completely ambivalent about it.”
5/5 – Little White Lies
RIVER
“A visually majestic, significantly airborne journey over a wide variety of rivers around the world.”
Deadline Hollywood Daily
“This sparklingly visual, Nat Geo-like tour of the world’s great waterways wants to dazzle us and shake us from our complacency and it manages both in style.”
4/5 – Time Out
“River does not request your attention. It demands your surrender. Flowing against the current of today’s commercial moviemaking, it’s out to slow the pulse rate and induce a trancelike state of reflection.”
4/5 – Sydney Morning Herald
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