Best Person in the World (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Renate Reinsve's revelatory and complex performance in the sprawling, novelistic film by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier earned her the Best Actress prize at Cannes. The film, "The Worst Person in the World," is an emotionally intricate and exhilarating character study of a woman entering her thirties. Amid the seemingly endless possibilities of the modern world, Julie (Reinsve) vacillates between artistic passions and professions, the question of motherhood, and relationships with two very different men: a successful comic-book artist (Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie) and a charismatic barista (Herbert Nordrum).

Working with a team of longtime collaborators, Trier and his perennial cowriter Eskil Vogt construct a liberating portrait of self-discovery and a bracingly contemporary spin on the romantic comedy in the Oscar-nominated third entry of their unofficial Oslo Trilogy.

The DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION features a new 2K digital master with a 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. It also includes new interviews with director Joachim Trier; coscreenwriter Eskil Vogt; actors Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Herbert Nordrum; cinematographer Kasper Tuxen; and sound designer Gisle Tveito. Additionally, the set features on-set footage from the creation of the film's time-freezing sequence and deleted scenes. The special edition also includes an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley.

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