20 Best Indie Movies Of 2016

Joachim Trier, the Norwegian director behind the critically acclaimed films Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, returned to the big screen last year with his first English language film Louder Than Bombs.

Focusing on teacher Gene (Gabriel Byrne) and his sons, newly married Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and high school aged loner Conrad (Devin Druid), the film examines the impact on the remaining family unit when a retrospective of their matriarch – a successful and celebrated war photographer played by Isabelle Huppert – threatens to reveal the true circumstances of her tragic death three years earlier.

Byrne, Eisenberg and Druid excel as the grieving trio dealing with conflicting memories of their matriarch but it’s Huppert who really shines, despite a relatively small amount of screen time compared to her co-stars.