Thelma (2017)
Country: NOR/FR/DK/SV
Technical: col/2.35 116m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
Synopsis:
A girl from a strict Christian household in the north attends university classes in the city, and almost immediately falls prey to seizures. Little does she know that they hark back to a trauma in her childhood, and that she is endangering the life of the fellow student with whom she has fallen in love.
Review:
Trier's take on the Carrie story (with a little of The Omen thrown in) was bound to be a more clinical affair, typified by the long, slow zoom via drone that more or less opens the film. The incomprehensible, shocking gesture of the father during a flashback hunting sequence is also typical of the lengthy narrative breaths the film takes before revealing its hand to the audience. Special effects eschew grandiosity but are all the better for it, and are seamlessly contained within an otherwise everyday mise-en-scène. If this is horror, then it is horror in the tradition of Let the Right One In.
Country: NOR/FR/DK/SV
Technical: col/2.35 116m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
Synopsis:
A girl from a strict Christian household in the north attends university classes in the city, and almost immediately falls prey to seizures. Little does she know that they hark back to a trauma in her childhood, and that she is endangering the life of the fellow student with whom she has fallen in love.
Review:
Trier's take on the Carrie story (with a little of The Omen thrown in) was bound to be a more clinical affair, typified by the long, slow zoom via drone that more or less opens the film. The incomprehensible, shocking gesture of the father during a flashback hunting sequence is also typical of the lengthy narrative breaths the film takes before revealing its hand to the audience. Special effects eschew grandiosity but are all the better for it, and are seamlessly contained within an otherwise everyday mise-en-scène. If this is horror, then it is horror in the tradition of Let the Right One In.
Country: NOR/FR/DK/SV
Technical: col/2.35 116m
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
Synopsis:
A girl from a strict Christian household in the north attends university classes in the city, and almost immediately falls prey to seizures. Little does she know that they hark back to a trauma in her childhood, and that she is endangering the life of the fellow student with whom she has fallen in love.
Review:
Trier's take on the Carrie story (with a little of The Omen thrown in) was bound to be a more clinical affair, typified by the long, slow zoom via drone that more or less opens the film. The incomprehensible, shocking gesture of the father during a flashback hunting sequence is also typical of the lengthy narrative breaths the film takes before revealing its hand to the audience. Special effects eschew grandiosity but are all the better for it, and are seamlessly contained within an otherwise everyday mise-en-scène. If this is horror, then it is horror in the tradition of Let the Right One In.