Joachim Trier in The Hollywood Reporter's TIFF Studio. Kayla Rocca For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut Reprise (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures that undercut his characters' youthful ambitions; of Thelma (2017), a sexual coming-of-age tale where a devout young woman's suppressed desire manifests as tel...