Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview.
But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long while.
Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down.
He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning. -- Cannes Film Festival
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olavs, Malin Crépin, Øystein Røger, Tone B. Mostraum, Emil Lund, Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal, Petter Width, Renate Reinsve, Johanne Kjellevik Ledang, Andreas Braaten, Anders Borchgrevink
Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Toronto (Vanguard), Helsinki (Nordic Exports), Athens (Focus on Norway), London (Film on the Square), Chicago (New Directors), Ghent (Out of Competition), AFI FEST (New Auteurs), São Paulo (New Directors), Stockholm (Competition): Bronze Horse, Best Cinematography, Sundance (Spotlight)
About this movie
Title: Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Directed by: Joachim Trier
Date of birth: 1974, Norway
Writing credits: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Music: Gisle Tveito (SOUND)
Year: 2011
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian, English
Color: Color
Runtime: 95 min.