The Plot: When Thelma, a girl with strong religious parents, starts developing feelings for a female friend she also starts to have strange seizures. While trying to know what’s wrong with her, she discovers that she also had seizures during her childhood and a dark truth starts to emerge.
The Movie: On one of the many posters designed for this movie, there’s a line, wrote by a critic of the Indiewire, that truly summarizes it: “CARRIE as directed by Ingmar Bergman.”
It’s true, the story moves slowly (sometimes too slow for my taste) and has a cold, almost clinical, atmosphere that reminded me of Ingmar Bergman’s cinema. On the other hand, the girl has psychokinetic powers like Carrie did. But director Joachim Trier is more interested on the relationship between Thelma and her father than on her supernatural powers. Religion is shown as a repressive thing responsible for what happens to Thelma and her father believes that was she has is an evil thing and only praying could save her soul.
Don’t expect gore or big special effects; the “horror” scenes are filmed in a poetic way, that gives the movie a dream quality that distinguishes it from other genre movies and don’t expect big explanations for what’s happening. The best thing are the scenes between Thelma (a winning Eili Haborand) and her father.
This is a slow pace trip, but at the end this Norwegian film rewards your patience in a quiet way.
My Rate: 6 (from 1 to 10)
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