Sex, Death, and Movies: How Joachim Trier's 'Louder than Bombs' Transcends Cinema

Every once in a while, a director comes along with the ability to utterly transcend the medium. Joachim Trier is one of them.

The Norwegian director broke onto the scene with Reprise (2006), a film about two aspiring writers. Like its protagonists, the film was teeming with manic creative energy. It was a fitting debut for Trier, who has since established himself as a rare literary voice in the cinematic universe. With the breathtaking Oslo, August 31 (2011), a melancholic portrait of a young man's return to society post-rehab, Trier portrayed a labyrinthine mind in order to expose the truth of the modern human condition.

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