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Freeze frame: Julie (Renate Reinsve) is the only person moving in an Oslo on pause.
HALFWAY THROUGH ACCLAIMED new romantic-comedy-drama The Worst Person In The World, everything stops. Our hero, Julie (played by Renate Reinsve) is having a tense conversation with her boyfriend Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie). Dreaming of an impossible affair, Julie imagines the world freezing around her as she runs through the streets of Oslo to have a stolen afternoon with a prospective new love, Eivind (Herbert Nordrum). It’s a bravado set-piece in a largely naturalistic film — but as Norwegian director Joachim Trier explains, it had a Hollywood inspiration.