A portrait of a family shattered by the untimely death of a war photographer who has left behind her husband and two sons is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first English-language film and a competition entry in Cannes. “Louder Than Bombs” uses flashbacks to unravel the narrative, with Isabelle Huppert playing the photographer and Gabriel Byrne her husband. For French actress Huppert, who has previously presided over the jury at Cannes, the part allowed her to show her character from a number of angles. In an interview, Huppert said, “There are several people in one single person, several lives in one life. It is rare that in a film, they show what could seem to be obvious, which is how much, in a group of people, one person can be seen one way by some and differently by others. And I think even in her own eyes she is incomprehensible and it might be also for that reason that she disappears.”
