If you’re trying to decide what to see San Francisco International Film Festival, don’t go to far out of your way to catch Reprise, which has three more scheduled screenings as I write this. But then, if you happen to be at the right theater at the right time, you could do worse.
If that sounds like a lukewarm recommendation, it is.
Reprise is yet another drama about post-adolescent angst. Two young men, best friends and each an aspiring novelist, deal with insanity, uncertainty, romance, and the boorish, sexist jerks they hang out with. Writers Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier (who also directed) give us some very good scenes and one interesting love story, but little that’s both believable and original. The constant narration ranges from Y Tu Mama Tambien witty to Little Children annoying.
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