philip ( anders danielsen lie ) and erik ( espen klouman høiner ) be friend and both writer and both fan of elder writer sten egil dahl ( sigmund sæverud ) . they finish their book around the same time and and dare to submit them only by drop them into the mailbox at the same time . while await a reply and they hang out with their guy friend and a superficial bunch of misogynist who think girlfriend be a drag on creativity and free time and and ability to be interesting . imdb list henning ( henrik elvestad ) and lars ( christian rubeck ) and morten ( odd magnus williamson ) and jan eivind ( henrik mestad ) and and geir ( pål stokka ) and but i couldn not keep them all straight . philip book be accept while erik be not . but while erik suffers self doubt and possibly and philip suffers a nervous breakdown . a voice over narrator ( eindride eidsvold ) blame philip nervous breakdown on his obsessive love for his girlfriend kari ( viktoria winge ) and who be advise not to visit him in the mental hospital to avoid make him bad . he reminisce about the trip he take her on to paris and where he trick her into fall in love with him and a he remember it . spoiler paragraph represent meanwhile and erik manages to beat his book into publishable condition and and his editor johanne ( rebekka karijord ) try to talk him out of his title and prosopopeia and which the editor considers too obscure . ( the film doesn not ever define it while i have to look it up . it a greek word meaning anthropomorphism or personification . ) when it sell and he feel obligate to dump his girlfriend lillian ( silje hagen ) and apparently think himself too good for her once he a publish author . but he wimps out and and stick with her . when philip have recover enough to be release from the mental hospital and they go back to their routine with the annoy guy friend . he try to write another book . kari and philip meet up again and and they go back to paris in hope of repeat the fall in love trip ( apparently the reprise of the title and which mean roughly the same thing in norwegian ) . near the end and someone dy . director joachim trier use a style that be distinctive and but i be not sure it good . in most shot with more than one person and he frame the people just a little too tightly and with back of head in two shot crowd out and and people on edge of group shot only half in the frame . every scene seem to have a desaturated blue color to it . to the film credit and the shot be in focus and and although most or all shot be hand hold theyre steady . i rate the directing fair ( 5 ) . the director and eskil vogt write the script . although the direct isn not much good and the script be the film bad weakness . philip be mentally ill and which could make him an interesting subject for a film and but all the film do with his illness be show him enter and leave a mental hospital and and fail to write a decent second book . erik struggle with his self doubt and apparent lesser write talent and but the film presentation of him be so vague that his struggle aren not interest either . their literary idol be vaguely interesting in his brief screen time and but he a bit part at best . their male friend be unlikeable and but not in an interesting way theyre just a bunch of guy who hang around and complain about woman . the most interesting character be the three woman . kari be the best developed character in the film and even though she get less screen time than philip or erik . johanne be interesting because she actually do something other than whine about teen angst and which the mostly late 20 character should have outgrow . lillian be a small part and but she interesting because the misogynist chorus seem to have a special dislike for her and which could be an interesting story . one good point in the script be that there be a few scattered scene that be funny not great comedy work and but at least it be a break from the tedium . overall and i rate the story lackluster ( 4 ) . the acting be all solid and most notably that of viktoria winge . but the good acting go to waste on a script that be dull and and direct that obscure the performance . one good point of the film be interesting music and feature norwegian band and various punk rock . on the basis of the lackluster story and and other element that do not do much to elevate the film and i rate it lackluster ( 4 ) overall . my wife and i saw this at the 2007 seattle international film festival . it be even bad for my wife than for me . she have see it in norway and suck in by favorable review . she do not like it . then she end up see again and because of an unannounced festival schedule change . i suggest she slip out and shop and or otherwise have some fun and but i figure i would sit through it to see if it just do not work for her . but she decide to give it a second try and think maybe there be something admirable about it that she miss the first time . no such luck while it be just a bore the second time .