Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a twenty-four-hour dilettante who, in the time it takes for the prologue to wrap, skips from surgeon to psychologist to photographer. Julie and boyfriend/comic artist Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie) live under one roof, but in two different worlds. Everything must be done according to his terms; after all, he’s the older, more established of the two. He wants kids and by her own admission, Julie has no maternal instincts. We spend four years with Julie, watching a journey to self-discovery as seen through her life’s choices, many of which revolve around men. It’s being billed as a subversive romcom — “If men had periods, there’d be more movies about periods” — but it is much darker than that. What starts with the ease and breeze of a finger right swiping across Tinder ends with a roundhouse kick to the emotions..This follows Reprise and Oslo, 31 as the capper to Joachim Trier’s so-called “Oslo Trilogy,” the first two installments of which, I’m ashamed to admit, have yet to cross my radar. Luckily, it works fine as a stand-alone. (2021) — Scott Marks
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