Ben Croll As he set out on “The Worst Person in the World,” which premiered July 8 in competition at Cannes, director Joachim Trier wasn’t looking to expand what he informally calls the Oslo Trilogy.Having worked stateside with 2015’s “Louder Than Bombs” and in genre with 2017’s “Thelma,” the Norwegian filmmaker just felt the need for a kind of soft reset.“My co-writer Eskil [Vogt] and I wanted to go back to basics, back to the form we started out with — human stories, in this case about love,” Trier said. “And to embrace that sense of playfulness and musicality we had in previous films.“But as we finished the script, and saw that [“Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st” star Anders Danielsen Lie] and the city of Oslo would play major roles, we.
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