ELLEN DORRIT PETERSEN

REVIEWS The Innocents - Childhood games and supernatural horror in Norway

THELMA
Starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Grethe Eltervåg, Ludvig Algeback, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Camilla Belsvik, Lars Berge and Vanessa Borgli. Directed by Joachim Trier.

Brought up in rural Norway by her religious and quietly domineering mother and father, painfully shy Thelma has recently arrived in Oslo to begin her university studies. At the library one afternoon, she experiences a powerful seizure, and beautiful fellow student Anja (Kaya Wilkins) is there to help. Developing an overwhelming attraction to her new friend, yet anxious that these feelings betray her beliefs, Thelma begins to manifest a dangerous and uncontrollable power that her parents have long feared.