It’s when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life.

2021
Joachim Trier does more than tell a story in The Worst Person in the World. He holds up a mirror, both unsettling and quietly comforting, to the contradictory spectrum of human experience. Julie’s journey is neither a triumph nor a collapse, but a far more nuanced and elusive state: drifting. She moves between selves with a tender grace, trying on identities like clothes she once hoped would fit. From medicine to psychology and photography, from serious relationships to fleeting ions…