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Thelma


Joachim Trier  •   Norway  • ​ 2017
117 mins  •  HD  •  R16 nudity, offensive language, sexual material & content that may disturb
In Norwegian with English subtitles


A beautiful classmate’s presence appears to awaken long-dormant, supernatural powers in a young college student.

​“Trier’s imaginative and beautifully realised film places the emotional journey of its heroine front and centre, resulting in an experience as deeply moving as it is slyly chilling.” – London Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Joachim Trier
PRODUCER: Thomas Robsahm
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PRODUCTION CO: Film i Väst
SCREENPLAY: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jakob Ihre
EDITOR: Oliver Bugge Coutté
MUSIC: Ola Fløttum
WITH: Eili Harboe (Thelma), Grethe Eltervåg (Thelma aged 6), Kaya Wilkins (Anja), Henrik Rafaelsen (Trond), Ellen Dorrit Petersen (Unni)​

FESTIVALS: Trondheim, Chicago

​REVIEWS

 “Brian De Palma’s Carrie echoes through this Norwegian psychological thriller, which is subtler and more daring than its model. An insecure college freshman in Oslo (Eili Harboe), adjusting to life in the big city without her smothering parents (Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen), falls for another coed and begins suffering terrible seizures. Her doctors rule out epilepsy in favor of a psychogenic illness, but before long the young woman begins to develop telekinetic powers. Director Joachim Trier links supernatural horror to repressed memories, raging hormones, and fundamentalist zealotry, crafting a sexy and unsettling brain-teaser.”

– Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
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“It’s a coming-of-age story rooted in the tradition of the European art film, but it flirts heavily with the horror genre. It’s also a romance, a psychological thriller, a liberation story and a whodunit (and why). Mostly, and most satisfyingly, it plays with the female Gothic, those unnerving tales – churning with desires and dread, and quivering with anxiety and suspicion – in which women are at once the victims and agents of change.”

– Manohla Dargis, New York Times


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Tuesday, 23 August, 6:00pm

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Monday, 10 October, 6:15pm

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Monday, 31 October, 6:15pm

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Wednesday, 9 November, 6:00pm

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