Four restless years of a young woman's twenties unfold in this Scandinavian drama-comedy, told less as one continuous story than as a string of turning points she keeps almost, but not quite, committing to.
What is The Worst Person in the World about?
Julie drifts between paths without settling on any of them: medicine, psychology, photography, and a string of relationships that each promise to finally answer who she is. The film follows her through jobs half-started and half-abandoned, a long-term partner she loves but keeps testing, and a chance encounter that throws her steady life into question at exactly the wrong, or right, moment. Structured in chapters rather than a single unbroken arc, it treats each stretch of Julie's life as its own small experiment, building toward a portrait of a woman forced to stop deferring the choice of who she actually wants to become.
About the cast
Renate Reinsve carries the film as Julie, working opposite Anders Danielsen Lie and Herbert Nordrum as the two men whose presence pulls her decisions in different directions, with Maria Grazia Di Meo, Hans Olav Brenner, Marianne Krogh, Helene Bjørnebye and Vidar Sandem rounding out the ensemble around them.
Context & significance
Directed by Joachim Trier, the film closes out what's often discussed as his loose Oslo trilogy, a set of films tied together by setting and tone rather than plot. It arrived in 2021 to strong festival attention and a wide arthouse release across Europe and North America, and it's frequently cited as one of the more clear-eyed portraits of a specific kind of late-twenties uncertainty that doesn't resolve into a tidy lesson by the closing scene. Much of that reputation rests on how evenly the film treats its characters, giving each of the people orbiting Julie a full interior life rather than casting them simply as obstacles or answers to her indecision.
Watching The Worst Person in the World on Ktime
K-Time carries the film with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever suits them. The page itself is free to read without an account; watching the film requires only a free login, with no separate purchase attached to it. K-Time's Farsi-first design means the subtitled or dubbed version sits front and center rather than as an afterthought, which matters for a film this dependent on tone and pacing.