The Worst Person in the World

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy closer was widely hailed as a career peak — a romantic comedy framework carrying genuine emotional weight, with Renate Reinsve's performance drawing near-universal admiration. The main fault line in criticism runs between those who found Julie a richly felt portrait of modern female ambivalence and those, like Richard Brody, who argued Trier reduces her to a schematic set of traits and pre-programmed emotional cues rather than a fully realized person.