Oslo, August 31st (2011)

Really heartbreaking. Trier has a very distinct visual style he's able to evoke that I really love in movies - a sort of hyperrealism. A reality that feels real and at the same time, we know could only be visualised in movies. Like the cinematography of Malick's movies - super real and in touch with the natural world but also not "really" how we perceive it. It also had the slow cadence, and somber, self-reflective, dreamy mood of Aftersun which I really like in a movie.
The script was bare - exactly what it needed to be. The camera didn't do more than it had to. The acting was perfectly somber. It was an unfortunately spectated cinema verite as we follow the character through his downward spiral, beginning with hope and growing sadder as he falls back to his old ways. Powerful movie.