The entire Seventh Row editorial team is here to talk about site favourite Joachim Trier's new film, The Worst Person in the World.This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, Contributing Editor Lindsay Pugh, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe.

On this episode:

• Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions (2:21)
• Related episodes (4:15)
• The World Person in the World and our first reactions (5:39)
• Is Julie the worst person in the world?(19:31)
• The film's structure (27:23)
• The film's style (33:57)
• Julie's relationships (45:06)
• The time freeze scene (56:57)
• The mushroom scene (1:10:42)
• Intellectualizing and romanticizing (1:18:07)
• The retroactive Oslo Trilogy (1:33:38)
• Conclusion (1:49:20)

Show notes

• Read an excerpt of Lindsay's interview with Renate Reinsve from our upcoming email book Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions
• Sign up to be the first to pre-order Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions, the first book to ever be published on Joachim Trier. You will also receive exclusive excerpts from the book.
• Read Alex's review of The Worst Person in the World
• View our Directors We Love page on Joachim Trier, for extensive information on Trier and his key collaborators, and links to all of our coverage of his films

Related episodes

• Ep. 114: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come and Bergman Island
• Ep. 112: Raw and Thelma: Modern female monsters
• Ep. 107: Another Round and Oslo, August 31st: Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, & addiction Redux
• Ep. 54: Used to Go Here and Unexpected: Kris Rey's thirtysomethings (Member's Only)
• Ep. 40: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece: Dead mothers (Member's Only)

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