"The worst person in the world" is Julie, who is in her mid-20s and has just moved to Oslo. To study psychology. Actually. Not much later, however, she finds herself in a steady relationship with a shared flat and family plans. The merit of co-writer and director Joachim Trier is to observe without judgement. To this end, he has placed Renate Reinsve, one of his regular actresses, at the centre of the film, who is happy to be observed - in both good and bad moments. in 2021, this earned her the award for best actress in Cannes.

Joachim Trier

born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark, but raised in Norway, Joachim Trier has been a fixture in Norwegian filmmaking for over a decade. This is primarily due to his Oslo trilogy, for the third part of which, "The Worst Man in the World", he was nominated for an Oscar this year for both Best Foreign Language Film and Best Screenplay. Part 1, the drug drama "Oslo, 31 April" (2011), and part 2, the mystery thriller "Thelma" (2017), celebrated great success at film festivals worldwide and with audiences.

Not too fat, not too old, just too... Nicolas Cage. Nic Cage is fed up with such rejections. He's as fed up with Hollywood as his daughter and ex-wife are with him. One last lousy job - an appearance at the birthday party of a super-rich fan - is supposed to bring in some real money, and then it's the end of the line.

That's the plan, which is merely the prologue to the Hollywood spoof satire "Massive Talent". What follows is a groovy "mixture of Alejandro Iñárritu and John Cassavetes" (according to Cage) with a good dash of Michael Bay-style action.

Nicolas Cage

Writer and director Tom Gormican could probably have written another Hollywood star with a relevant background into his satire "Massive Talent" - one of the Clooney/Pitt clan, for example. But only Nicolas Cage can confuse himself with his own action hero image (e.g. "Face/Off" or "The Rock") while arguing with himself as Sailor Ripley (from "Wild at Heart"). And only Cage, who was born into the famous Coppola family in Long Beach, California, in 1964, is actually able to pull off this lovingly egocentric self-irony.

As soon as you get used to the earthy semi-darkness of "Pig", you get your first surprise. Nicolas Cage is not the title character at all! Rather, he roams the thicket alongside the happy pig as a perfect forest gnome, always on the lookout for precious truffles. No less surprising is the film's turn from a meditative chamber play to an ice-cold revenge thriller as soon as the pig is kidnapped.

"Pig" is one of those film truffles that lurk without much fanfare in the infinite expanse of streaming services, waiting to be found by Nic Cage fans or simply film enthusiasts.