Recovering drug addict Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is given a day’s leave from his rehab centre to apply for a job in the city. Over the course of one day and night, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and family in Oslo, where the ghosts of his past mistakes wrestle with the hope to see some future by morning. Is this the first day of the rest of his life? Or are these his final 24 hours?

Inspired by Louis Malle's new wave classic The Fire Within, Trier's film is cool and compassionate, with an achingly honest performance from Anders Danielsen Lie that exemplifies why it was a festival favourite at Cannes.

"Oslo, August 31st is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I've seen." Roger Ebert

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