"Am I the worst person in the world?"
Perhaps, everyone will have this idea for a moment.
When we look for meaning in life, is there an answer?
Renate Reinsve
Entering the new decade of the 21st century, we have ushered in a "middle-aged female era".
Two days ago, we talked about Tang Wei, the heroine of the new film "The Determination to Break Up" shortlisted for Cannes this year. Today, we want to talk about last year's Cannes film queen, Renate Reinsve.
Renate Reinsve wore a Louis Vuitton dress to the 94th Academy Awards
Renate Reinsve, dressed in a Louis Vuitton dress, presented her trophy with Joachim Trier, director of "The Worst Man in the World," after winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival
At the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021, the 34-year-old Norwegian "newcomer" won the film queen. This is the first "heroine" she has played in her 10 years in the industry.
Six months later, she starred in the film "The Worst Man in the World" and was nominated for the 94th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
"The Worst Man in the World" itself is also a "middle girl" story.
Her name is Julie, 30+, and she lives in Oslo, Norway's "big city".
The film takes 14 clips that look back at her past 10 years. No marriage, no children, no stable nine-to-five jobs... Coupled with this title, it sounds like a very "failed" life.
Norwegian film "The Worst Man in the World"
However, this film has made countless viewers sigh after watching the movie: "This is the other me in the world."
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She came alive
Millennial anxiety
About the movie "The Worst Man in the World"
Julie, played by Renate Reinsve, is , by universal "success standards, a good hand of cards."
In her career, Julie's trajectory has gone from being a promising medical school laude to a flexible employee.
She used to be the kind of "other people's kid": she easily got into medical school with very low acceptance rates.
However, she had no bigger goals. She chose medical students because the profession reflects the value of her high scores: "Don't let the scores go to waste."
However, she soon gave up studying medicine and studied psychology instead, because she "loved the human mind, not the body."
After a few psychology classes, she discovered her better profession, photographer, from the moment she took pictures with her mobile phone and posted Instagram, so she bought a camera and lens with a student loan.
After graduating from college, she did not go to a "serious" job, but worked as a bookstore hourly worker, on the grounds that she was "in love with writing."
Speaking of which, her most "outstanding achievement" is probably the publication of a "blockbuster article" on the Internet, "Oral Sex in the ME TOO Era".
Career is "difficult to climb the peak", and emotional life is also "going with the flow".
When she first became an adult, changing boyfriends and majors was as easy as changing her hair color. She was always swayed by a momentary thought: a moment of losing interest in her medical boyfriend, a moment of falling in love with a psychology teacher, a moment of rolling into bed with a flat model being photographed...
All her thoughts are fleeting like the flow of information in this internet age.
Julie, 30, met Aksel, a famous 44-year-old cartoonist, in a bar.
Aksel is her soul mate, perfectly compatible, and he can provide her with a sense of security in her life. She finally began to enter into a stable relationship. But at the same time, Aksel also demanded "responsibility" from her — children.
Julie didn't want to get married and didn't want kids.
She cheated.
She slipped away from Aksel's book launch, sneaked into a stranger's wedding on the side of the road, and played with a funny strange man to rub the edge of the wood...
She was obsessed with the man and the passion he had brought. A chance reunion, a little bit of fire.
His name is Eivind, he's a barista, a Dinkist, and an avid environmentalist girlfriend. The two men went their separate ways and moved together. The feeling of living with Eivind made Julie feel incredibly fresh, but this instinct-driven life also made Julie feel wandering.
Eventually, she escaped from Aksel's side because "like I did when we first met, I felt like I could be completely myself when I was with you." ”
Is Julie in love with Eivind? No, what she fell in love with was the feeling of freedom.
Eivind married and had children with others, while Julie was alone.
At 30 years old, this life trajectory looks "terrible".
However, director Joachim Trier expressed his opinion through the dying Akesl: "If there is anything I regret, it is that I never let you see what a good person you are." ”
Director Joachim Trier titled the film: "The Worst Man in the World," from a common Norwegian phrase: "I'm the worst person in the world." ”
Northern Europe, probably the most developed region in the world, has a middle class per capita, and there are no major difficulties in life - free education, free medical care, high per capita income...
When a person obtains these social resources, he does not "achieve nothing." This is precisely the "dilemma" of millennials: in such a society full of "happiness", there is no self-worth, feeling lost and self-denying.
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feminism
Anti-feminism?
Some see it as an irony against the "feminists" who pursue everything that makes them "the worst people."
Julie, who is dressed in a highly developed society, has the question of anxiety and confusion, relative to the plight of women in underdeveloped areas, and seems to be "why not eat meat". Because of this, this role has been translated by many viewers as pretentious, self-pitying, or contrived.
Director Joachim Trier had no intention of writing a "feminist" manifesto, nor did he satirize feminists. However, Julie happens to be a woman (in fact, when the story was conceived, the director and screenwriter originally wrote Akesl as the protagonist).
"The Worst Man in the World" points to the common existential dilemma of millennial youth: Who am I? What do I want? Where is my value in this society?
Julie, as a 30-year-old woman, faces a much clearer identity dilemma.
It's like sketching the fate of the women in julie's family in a few short sentences: "Julie's mother, Eva, was divorced for two years at the age of 30 and was a single mother. Julie's grandmother had 3 children at the age of 30. Julie's great-grandmother lost her husband at the age of 30 and raised 4 children on her own. Julie's great-great-grandmother had seven children, two of whom died of tuberculosis. Julie's great-great-great-grandmother, Herta, is the wife of a businessman and has six children in a loveless marriage. Julie's great-great-great-grandmother did not live to be 30 years old, when women's life expectancy was 35 years. ”
Julie did not live a life of wife and mother at the age of 30, as her grandparents did.
When Julie refuses to have children with Akesl, Akesl, as an elder, admonishes her: "Your ideas are wrong. Most of the people around them have children before their lives are sorted out, and they still solve the problem. ”
Julie seems to be seeking "reproductive freedom", but in fact she is not so "clear" about what she wants, but she knows that she "doesn't want" - she doesn't want to live a chaotic life like her grandparents, busy dealing with one "must-do" thing in life.
When Julie leaves Akesl, she's not rebelling against "procreation", but the kind of life she's an accessory to someone else— she's not the "girlfriend of a famous cartoonist", who should she be?
Like Akesl's friends asking Julie the question, "What are you doing?" "Is there anything you want to do that you want to develop into a career?" "Are you working full-time?"
When we say "no" to life, this "freedom" does not bring us a real sense of "security" and "satisfaction."
When we access the wonderful world of the outside world through explosive online information, when we think that we have more choices by our ancestors, we do not really control our lives.
As Julie explains to Akesl when she breaks up: "I feel like an audience member of my own life." ”
Julie doesn't want to be a wife, a mother, a company employee, someone with a clear career... So, who the hell is she? Where is her value?
It's the most interesting part of the film. As director Joachim Trier puts it: "It seems that people need to achieve their self-worth through a compulsive short-term goal at their fingertips, reading, career success, marriage... But in highly developed Norway, when it doesn't matter anymore, then we should do it by 'what to do, what to do.'
'To determine your own position?' And how do you find yourself? ”
The French film is called Julie (en 12 chapitres) (Julie, en 12 chapitres). Director Joachim Trier just uses twelve chapters to record Julie's years one by one, without complicated drama, just as life is.
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Unremarkable charm
Renate Reinsve
Renate Reinsve, the actress who portrayed Julie, is a real-life Julie.
At last year's Cannes Film Festival, everyone asked director Joachim Trier: "Where can I find such a treasure actress?" ”
Famous French movie star Isabelle Huppert discovered Trier's "treasure" in 2017. At that time, she was a guest in Oslo, watched a Robert Wilson play "Edda", and was deeply attracted by the performance of "actress in purple dress" on stage.
When Huppert shows Trier his "discoveries," Trier tells her that he's working on a movie tailored for the actress, and that's The Worst Man in the World.
Isabelle Huppert and Renate Reinsve at the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2022 runway on October 5, 2021, Paris
Renate Reinsve and Isabelle Huppert are a lot like each other, they are both "untraceable" acting schools.
Renate Reinsve didn't have the luck of Huppert's youthful fame, though. Like most young millennials, Reinsve, who was born in late 1987, faces a narrow career growth space.
After 10 years in the industry, it has been unknown.
"I wasn't growing up happy," she said. Performing in the theater became her solace.
However, before receiving the film, she almost quit her acting career and went to work as a carpenter...
Because there are few interesting experimental dramas and more boring soap operas. At that time, she was deeply frustrated by playing some flat characters in the TV series, and instead devoted herself to handicrafts and enrolled in a carpentry course.
When she received the cannes film festival notice, she knew that her carpentry work might be over.
At a dinner at the Cannes Film Festival last July, Renate Reinsve spent the night hanging out with the stars' bodyguards for fear of dealing with the "stars."
According to her, when an activist photographer who had photographed "Sweet Tea" Timothée Chalamet showed up, her bodyguard friends stopped the photographer: "Shoot her too, she's also an actress." However, after the photographer held up the camera, without pressing the button, she said: "I guess I don't deserve it." ”
In July 2021, Renate Reinsve made her debut at the Cannes Film Festival for the official photocall of The Worst Man in the World
In July 2021, Renate Reinsve wore a Dior plain black dress at the premiere of "The Worst Man in the World" at the Cannes Film Festival
The photographer was wrong.
Renate Reinsve rose to fame after getting the Cannes film. That night, she wore a custom-made dress with diamonds, Louis Vuitton.
And her debut in Cannes, not even a sponsor, wearing only a pair of tunics with sneakers. The premiere was also a Dior black dress with no decoration.
Renate Reinsve at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony
There is a charm in Renate Reinsve, not a stunning beauty, but a sense of ordinary charm.
When she gazes into the camera, you are deeply attracted to her, and you can see her rich plasticity in her eyes.
In the words of director Joachim Trier: "She's an incredible actress. Her dramatic abilities, her vulnerability in front of the camera, her ability to go deep and show complexity, are what really interesting about her. ”
The olive branch of the fashion industry has poured in with her awards. She wore many of the designer's new works on the red carpet: CHANEL, DIOR, Proenza Schouler, Khaite, The Attico, Sid Neigum...
1, Wearing a CHANEL suit to participate in the premiere of "Dunes" at the 47th Deauville American Film Festival in France
2, at the premiere of "The Worst Man in the World" at the Cannes Film Festival, he wore a Dior dress
3, January 2022 participated in the American talk show, wearing a Proenza Schouler dress
4, March 2022, dressed in a Khaite white dress to participate in the National Critics Association Awards Ceremony
5, March 2022, wearing a Sid Neigum dress to shoot a promotional photo before the Oscars
6, March 2022, attended the New York Film Critics Association Awards, wearing a Philosophy di Lorenzo dress
Most of these, she was fascinated by Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton's creative director. He created a wonderful red carpet look for her.
She became the "next" Alicia Vikander.
In October 2021, Renate Reinsve watched the launch of Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 2022 collection in Paris, posing with creative director Nicolas Ghesquière after the show.
Nicolas Ghesquière created a party look for her at the Caesars Film Festival and the Oscars for Vanity Fair.
In February 2022, Renate Reinsve wore a black lace embroidered burgundy velvet dress at the 47th César Awards ceremony in French cinema, which Was specially tailored for her by Louis Vuitton
In March 2022, Renate Reinsve attended the Vanity Fair party after the 94th Academy Awards, wearing a louis Vuitton custom rhinestone dress.
From the Red Carpet in Cannes to the Red Carpet at the Oscars, from the Paris Fashion Week to the Brand Runway... Renate Reinsve can always be seen interpreting Louis Vuitton's fashion to the right place.
1, March 2022, wearing a Louis Vuitton dress for the 94th Academy Awards
2, July 2021, wearing a Louis Vuitton dress at the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony
3, In November 2021, she wore a Louis Vuitton dress to participate in the Gotham Independent Film Awards
4, March 2022, wearing a Louis Vuitton custom dress to attend the BAFTA Awards
5, March 2022, head to watch the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2022 show
6, March 2022, dressed as Louis Vuitton for the Academy Awards reception
5, July 2021, dressed as Louis Vuitton for the Louis Vuitton Dinner during the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
6, October 2021, during Paris Fashion Week, watch the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2022 collection launch show and attend the post-show party.
She is like the kind of metropolitan girl that Nicolas Ghesquière calls her, showing her different faces and styles on different occasions.
She can wear the femininity of women, but also the momentum of a suit.
Renate Reinsve is really not a "star", she is more like the kind of ordinary girl who can be seen everywhere. Just like Julie, the heroine of "The Worst Man in the World", she is smart and charming, and she is also unremarkable.
When you open her Instagram, you'll find that she looks more vivid in these costumes.
Beyond the red carpet, her daily look is more instructive. She was the kind of typical Scandinavian girl, simple and funky. Julie's style of dress in the film is almost renate Reinsve herself.
In fact, Renate Reinsve is not a "city girl" in the standard sense. He was born in Solbergelva, a small Norwegian village, and in her words it was just a "road connecting two places."
Reinsve felt very different from the rest of her family, and from a very young age she began to ask all sorts of questions that she still struggles with today: "How are people connected and why?" "Why did I end up with this guy?"
She was reluctant to mention her past more, and those complicated relationships of the past became her traumatic memories. She, like all small town girls, fled the place.
At the age of 16, Reinsve stopped going to school and left home. She wanted to escape to Costa Rica or another warm country, but could only afford a plane ticket to Edinburgh, with just enough money in her pocket to stay in her little hostel there for a week.
She tried to find a job, but no one wanted to hire her. Later, the owner of the hostel moved his heart of compassion. Reinsve described the story this way: "He asked me: 'Have you poured beer before?' I said, 'No. He asked again, "But you worked in a bar, didn't you?" "My answer is still no." Okay, but you're over 18 years old? I said, 'No. He rolled his eyes and said, 'Well, you've been hired.' '"
He came to the capital Oslo and studied acting at the National Academy of Arts.
In 2011, she met young director Joachim Trier.
Trier is working on a second film, Oslo, August 31. Reinsve came to play a character with only two lines. However, Reinsve gives 20 ways to act, which is completely different from the confusion of most young actors.
Trier was fascinated by her, and over the next few years, the two experienced love, choice, and other existential issues...
It's like this "The Worst Man in the World."
Renate Reinsve with director Joachim Trier
The film resembles Joachim Trier's love letter to Renate Reinsve. And Reinsve injected soul into the film.
Asked why such a good actor as Renate Reinsve didn't get more roles, Joachim Trier said, "Maybe it has something to do with the situation of women in the film industry... There don't seem to be many complicated female characters in the movie at the moment. It's ironic because if we look back at the work of the masters of art cinema, whether it's Godard, Antonioni, or our Nordic Bergman, they all have a very classic big female lead in their films, and their long-term relationship with fixed actresses has also been rumored to be a good story. ”
Renate Reinsve's name may be juxtaposed with those of the goddesses of cinematic history, but what fascinates her is that she is like a projection of the "ordinary youth" of the 21st century: to do a job that does not know where the future lies, to try to have fun in life, to find the fulcrum of her own life.
Renate Reinsve shares her daily life: rock climbing, diving, basketball, camping, winter swimming, picnics...
Just like Julie, who plays her, in the face of countless problems and uncertainties in life, although she does not know how to answer them, she will still explore, rather than escape.
Courage is a stronger emotion than fear.
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