There was a time when genre meant something. It wasn’t just a costume a film could wear, or a nostalgic gloss to sell another title. It was structure, myth, and identity. A precise rulebook to either follow or break with purpose. But somewhere in the last decade, genre got flattened. Everything became ironic, referential, self-aware to the point of emptiness. Every western had to be a deconstruction. Every samurai story needed quotation marks around it.

When The Worst Person in the World premiered in 2021, few could have predicted the cultural impact it would have just a few short years later. Directed by Joachim Trier and starring the luminous Renate Reinsve in a career-defining performance, this Norwegian romantic dramedy has quietly solidified its place as a modern classic. Now, film lovers in Glasgow have a rare chance to see it the way it was meant to be experienced , on the big screen, in an…