Go DARK, AMAZING TALE OF ONE MAN'S BATTLE TO STAY CLEAN AFTER ALMOST A YEAR IN REHAB. NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. by Peneflix This candidly remarkable film is not for everyone, but more than any movie in recent memory, deals honestly with the staggeringly powerful tentacles of addiction; a hunger that imprisons the body and...
100 Boston Globe | Ty Burr The surface of Oslo, August 31st is as cool and crystalline as a Scandinavian lake, but at its core is a benevolence for the life we all share and tears for the man who can no longer share in it. Read full review
100 Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert Oslo, August 31st is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I've seen. Read full review
100 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum Trier's compassion for what it takes to survive, mixed with the love he bestows on Oslo, is rewardingly profound. Read full review
88 Slant Magazine | The evocation of things ending suffuses the film with melancholy, as Anders increasingly becomes an observant rather than a participant in his own life. Read full review