Tuesday, May 15, 2018

100 Words on Joachim Trier's Thelma (2017)

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By Thomas Puhr

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) adds a supernatural twist to his usual humanistic technique. It opens intriguingly enough, with a booming, Scanners-esque score by Ola Fløttum and a startling scene in which a father contemplates killing his young daughter, Thelma (played as an adult by Eili Harboe). The girl, we learn, has dangerous powers, which reemerge when she becomes attracted to a college classmate, Anja (Kaya Wilkins). The relationship between these two women is the film’s strongest element, but Trier instead focuses on the origins of Thelma’s psychic powers in the film’s latter half, which spoils some of the premise’s mystique.