“Oslo, August 31st” is set during a day when Anders is trying to decide whether he wants to be alive. Either way he answers the question, just the asking of it feels very sad. As played by Anders ...

OSLO, Norway — Anders Behring Breivik got what he wanted – a prison term instead of an insanity ruling – as he received his sentence Friday for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier follows “Reprise,” his 2006 homage to the French New Wave, with another gem, “Oslo, August 31st.” It’s the story of a 34-year-old addict, Anders, who has been clean ...

A coolly observed yet boundlessly compassionate day in the life of a recovering drug addict, “Oslo, August 31st” breaks your heart many times over. The first time is the early sequence in which Anders ...

Based loosely on the 1931 novel “Le Feu Follet” by French author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle that was previously adapted by Louis Malle- in 1963, Joachim Trier’s- “Oslo, August 31” is a devastating, yet ...

Anders Behring Breivik - the gunman who killed 77 people last summer in Oslo and Utoya Island - wept as he watched his own propaganda video on the first day of his trial in Norway. The court saw ...

Joachim Trier's first film, Reprise, was a giddy, hyperstylized account of the delights and despairs of Norway's young literary set. His follow-up, Oslo, August 31st, features some of the same themes ...

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik pleaded not guilty in Oslo District Court to charges that he committed two acts of terrorism July 22 last year in which 77 people died. WSJ's Kjetil ...