16/05/2013 - Norwegian director Joachim Trier family drama will shoot in Germany and the US from this autumn as a Norwegian-Danish-French-German-American co-production

French actress Isabelle Huppert, Irish actor Gabriel Byrne and US actor Jesse Eisenberg have been confirmed for Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s family drama Louder than Bombs [+see also:
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According to the Norwegian Film Institute, which has granted slate funding to Trier’s projects with Oslo-based production outfit, Motlys, Louder Than Bombs will shoot in Germany and the US from this autumn as a Norwegian-Danish-French-German-American co-production.

”Louder Than Bombs is a character-driven piece, so I am obviously thrilled to have such incredible actors working with me,” said Trier, whose previous features - Oslo, August 31^st [+see also:
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If you must ask, Trier is related to Danish director Lars von Trier; his father was sound engineer on Norwegian director Ivo Caprino’s Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, which has sold an estimated 5.5 million tickets in Norway (population: 4.9 million); his grandfather was Norwegian legendary director Erik Løchen.

Scripted with Eskil Vogt, who co-wrote both Oslo, August 31^st (2011) and Reprise, Louder Than Bombs is the story of a famous war photographer (Huppert), now dead – after opening a retrospective exhibition of her work her husband (Byrne) and her sons discover an unsettling secret from her past.

Produced by Osnes and Sigve Endresen, for Motlys, the film is co-produced by Nimbus Film (Denmark), Memento Films (France), Majade Films (Germany) and Albert Berger-Ron Yerxa from Boda Fide Productions (US). Memento will handle French distribution and international sales, marketing the project at Cannes.