Oslo, August 31st

Synopsis

Granted a 24-hour leave from his rural drug rehabilitation facility, a 34-year-old recovering heroin addict travels to Oslo to interview for an editorial assistant job, spending the late summer day and night wandering through the city, catching up with old university friends, eavesdropping on cafe confessions, and confronting the painful realization that the lives of everyone around him have moved on. Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt's Cannes Un Certain Regard-screened masterpiece freely adapted from Pierre Drieu La Rochelle's The Fire Within starring Anders Danielsen Lie.