Thelma

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    Thelma
    2017

    Synopsis

    A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

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    Cast

    • Eili HarboeThelma
    • Kaya WilkinsAnja
    • Henrik RafaelsenTrond
    • Ellen Dorrit PetersenUnni
    • Grethe EltervågThelma 6 år
    • Marte Magnusdotter SolemNevrolog
    • Anders MosslingDr. Paulsson
    • Vanessa BorgliAnjas mor
    • Steinar Klouman HallertKristoffer
    • Ingrid Unnur GiæverJulie

    Recommendations

    • 91

      The Playlist

      Trier crafts a drama that is sublimely ambiguous, austere and also deeply sad and heartbreaking.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      Here, the Norwegian’s filmmaker’s signature brand of existential dread (always coupled with and complicated by a youthful sense of becoming), is expressed through style more than action. This isn’t a movie where all that much happens, but every decision ripples with darkness.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      While the more enigmatic supernatural elements at times veer close to formulaic Hollywood horror tropes, the movie maintains a compelling seriousness, particularly in its consideration of the conflict between sexuality and repression.
    • 80

      Variety

      At times a tad too subtle, Thelma is nonetheless an unnervingly effective slow-burn, and those with the patience for Trier’s patient accumulation of detail will find it pays off in unexpected ways.
    • 80

      ScreenCrush

      In Thelma, Trier tries his hand at making a straight-up genre film — a love story between two women cloaked in a supernatural thriller. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Trier’s knack for nuance and graceful storytelling marries beautifully to a tender drama about self-discovery spiked with psychokinesis.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Even if Trier doesn’t have much new to say about oppressive religious belief, childhood trauma or the terror of adolescent hormones, Thelma’s sustained, muted uneasiness gives this genre exercise sufficient gusto.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      Trier’s first foray into the fantastic—his college Carrie—gets stuck in an odd middle ground: It’s at once too metaphorically muddled and too dramatically straightforward.
    • 63

      Rolling Stone

      There's too much undeniably impressive filmmaking to dismiss Thelma; there's too much uncertain storytelling to actually recommend it. Trier undoubtedly has a great horror-movie character study in him. We can't wait to see it.

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