Thelma (2017) - Joachim Trier
AKA: "The sexiest movie of this HoF."
There are movies that are able to fiddle with our most repressed feelings. Appetite for violence, super powers (?) or sexual fetishes. Several times during "Thelma", I felt my body warm up (Eili Harboe is hot).
I like to view this film as a story of sexual repression (a good one) but I have to say, all the supernatural elements totally weaken the film. Throwing this to the corner, I get to see a great movie. Maybe puting this elements it's a way to call Carrie's widowed fans, but if the script by Eskil Vogt and director Joachim Trier had not appealed to common sense when it came to recounting more macabre or "difficult" elements,
Thelma would have gained far more layers. At first sight, these supernatural elements may even be considered psychological, but it is somewhat discarded by the third act.
Fortunately there are many positive elements, the tensions well conducted by Trier, the attention to details, the delicate handling of the atmosphere, there are several positive elements. Unfortunately, all this plays against the script, which in the second half seems to leave out all the psychological elements and the conflicts of the relationship (Thelma and her father rendered great dialogues in the first half) and begins to focus only on supernatural elements.
I had watched Thelma last December, reviewing now for this HoF, I must admit that the movie lost a lot of its power.
★★★
Anyway, It's a good movie...