Louder Than Bombs
Year: 2015
Country:
NORWAY, FRANCE, DENMARK
Run Time:
109 minutes
Gene Reed (Gabriel Byrne) is an aging high-school teacher who, while grappling with the sudden death of his photojournalist wife Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), is also experiencing difficulties connecting with his youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid), a painfully shy loner who finds his only outlet on the internet. When Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), Gene's wunderkind eldest son—a promising young academic who has become an insufferably moralizing pedant—returns to the family home almost immediately after the birth of his first child, Gene seizes upon the opportunity to try and mend the rifts in the familial fabric. This last-chance bid for reconciliation is made all the more urgent by an upcoming, posthumous exhibition of Isabelle's work, which may lead to a public revelation of some of the Reeds' darker secrets. Director Joachim Trier displays a truly novelistic sense of character and detail as he probes the fault lines of this singularly unhappy clan, and he also mines sly comedy from the generational gap between Gene and his sons. Powerful, memorable, and psychologically acute, LOUDER THAN BOMBS is both a lament for what has been lost and an affirmation of what remains. –Toronto International Film Festival
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Director
Joachim Trier
Filmography
"Reprise" (2006)—31st CIFF, "Oslo, August 31st" (2011), LOUDER THAN BOMBS (2015)
Producers
Thomas Robsahm, Joshua Astrachan, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Marc Turtletaub, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Screenwriting
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Cinematography
Jakob Ihre
Editing
Olivier Bugge Coutté
Principal Cast
Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid, Isabelle Huppert, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn
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