Examining the lingering emotional paralysis crippling the family of
a renowned war photographer (Isabelle Huppert, seen in copious flashbacks) who committed suicide three years earlier, Trier employs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic style, skipping blithely back and forth in time, and constantly shifting perspective among the fretting widower (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid).
Smith was an internationally
renowned photographer who received critical acclaimfor his coverage of World
War II and whose images have appeared in Life, Newsweek and The New York Times.