Louder Than Bombs (2015)
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Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
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Trier’s sensibility for the dynamics of family, for the depiction of nebulous memory, and for the detail of life (the film’s full of beautiful, complex scenes), means that I’m already eager to take a second look and see what else there is to unpack.
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Richly detailed, sensitively played and cleverly mounted.
83
An alternately wise, melancholic and good-humored look at people surrounded by support but nonetheless alienated by their incapacity to confront their problems.
75
Slant Magazine
Louder Than Bombs is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.
70
Strangely, Louder Than Bombs manages to be glaringly obvious and admirably subtle in the same breath.
