i feel like The Worst Person in the World

“Do you realize what you’re doing?” Aksel asks Julie in the trailer to The Worst Person in the World. “What you’re destroying?”

“Yes, of course,” she says. A mascara tear drips down her cheek. 

Joachim Trier’s film The Worst Person in the World competes tonight for the Best International Film Oscar. The Norwegian Cannes-approved flick has revived “the art-house film” with almost $3 million at the American box office.

In a boiled-down version, the protagonist Julie breaks up with her long-term boyfr...