But as he charges forward with the project anyway (which he intends to shoot in the actual house that inspired its story, and still legally belongs to him), each of the surviving Borgs will be forced to navigate the resentful ocean of lost time that stretches between the truth of who their parents actually were, and the fiction of the characters they’ve created for them to play in their minds. As a girl, she thought of those pipes as the innards of a house that she always managed to be alive, and Trier’s signature voiceover — which continues to epitomize the goosebump effervescence of his cinema — introduces us to the structure as if it were a character with thoughts and feelings of its own. Segmented with blackouts and shot with an attentiveness that always feels alive to its own beauty, the story follows Nora deep into the narrows of her fraught personal life at the same time as it spends time with her married younger sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), who was the child star of their father’s movies before she grew up to embrace her role as the more “practical” sibling.
Author: David Ehrlich
Published at: 2025-05-21 22:45:00
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