The Worst Person in the World. The , now in theaters, kicks off with Julie (Renate Reinsve) diving headfirst into a quarter-life crisis.
A student in Oslo, Norway, she switches from surgery to psychology to photography, changing up her hair color with every shift.
We are told via voice over—the film is divided up into “chapters” that telegraph the stages of her growth—that Julie was once a hard-working, straight-A type, but that the macro issues of the world (The news!
The environment!) and the micro-distractions of cell phones and social media have set her somewhat adrift. There’s a hint of the “gifted kid burnout” trope, though Julie can always take care of herself.
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