Thelma (2017)

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Movie
Original title Thelma
Country of production Norway , France , Denmark , Sweden
original language Norwegian , English
Publishing year 2017
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Joachim Trier
script Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
music Ola Fløttum
camera Jacob yours
cut Olivier Bugge Coutté
occupation

Thelma is a romantic mystery - thriller with horror elements of Joachim Trier , who came in Norwegian cinemas on September 15 2017th In the film, a young Norwegian student who has just moved to Oslo falls in love and realizes that she is developing supernatural powers.

action

Thelma, a young Norwegian, moves to the capital Oslo to study here. This is the first time that she is not in the immediate vicinity of her parents, who brought her up very strictly Christian and closely monitor all her actions. So she has a phone call with them every day, in which she describes what she has done during the day and is judged accordingly.

In Oslo she meets Anja, who she takes to some parties. There she drinks alcohol for the first time and falls in love with Anja, who returns her love. Due to her upbringing, Thelma cannot accept love and tries to suppress her feelings through prayer. During the encounters with Anja, Thelma had seizures, after which she was examined for epilepsy. Unusual things also happen during the seizures. B. Crows against the window of the library where Thelma and Anja are staying, or Anja comes to see Thelma believing that Thelma has asked her to do so with a message, but can no longer find the message.

Thelma then goes to a clinic to be examined. To find out the cause of the seizures, doctors try to provoke a seizure. Thelma should consciously think about unpleasant situations. While being watched, she has another attack when she thinks of Anja. In order to resolve her conflict, Thelma unconsciously lets Anja disappear during this attack. The doctors explain to Thelma that it is not epilepsy, but a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure that can be triggered in response to repression. Thelma also finds out that her grandmother did not die as she had believed, but is undergoing psychiatric treatment in a nursing home.

Thelma then visits her grandmother, but she no longer seems to be aware of the outside world. Thelma learns from a nurse that her grandmother claimed to have made her husband disappear and that she is very accused of having disappeared. She is also given strong medication, approved by Thelma's father, Trond.

At university, Thelma learns of Anja's disappearance and feels responsible for it. She goes back to her parents and tells them about her seizures. Her parents then give her medication and explain her story to her: When Thelma was a little girl, she had a brother whom she also made disappear. Then she made him reappear in the frozen lake, so that he died. The reasons are only hinted at. Thelma probably had the impression that her parents were mainly looking after her brother. Thelma's mother then attempted suicide, which she survived but which confined her to a wheelchair. Trond tried to kill Thelma herself but subsequently raised her to be Christian and oppressive to any stronger emotion. Trond describes Thelma's abilities in such a way that if she desires something very strongly, it can come true.

Thelma confesses to her parents that she loves Anja, which her father does not believe. Her father also prepares a syringe on the mother's advice to suppress Thelma's consciousness. She realizes her father's intentions and uses her skills to kill him by starting a boat trip on fire and jumping into the lake, where he drowns. However, she also lets Anja reappear in Oslo. Taking better control of her abilities, she heals her mother so that she can walk again and returns to Oslo to live with Anja.

production

Staff, staffing and funding

The direction was taken over by Joachim Trier , who also wrote the script for the film together with Eskil Vogt . Eili Harboe , who can be seen in the film in the title role of Thelma, said at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck about the character she played: “Thelma is a girl who has learned to suppress her emotions through her conservative upbringing - and with it their supernatural abilities. But when she finds the love of her life with the student Anja, played by Kaya Wilkins , she experiences a great liberation of her repressed feelings and allows herself to flare up her passion. So the film is also about shame, love and their relationship with their parents. Thelma finds out who she is and how she can deal with her supernatural powers. "

Regarding the meaning of religion in the film, Harboe said: “The film and its story are not, however, a criticism of religiosity or personal beliefs. He criticizes when religion is used as an instrument of power to suppress others. Because Thelma's parents use religion so that their daughter is ashamed of who she is. "

The production received a grant of 11 million Norwegian crowns from the Norwegian Film Institute. The film was funded by the Danish Film Institute with 2.0 million crowns. Further funding came from the Copenhagen Film Fund , and the film was funded by contractual agreements with Snowglobe Film with 105,000 and 753,000 euros respectively. On the Danish side, the film was co-produced by Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors and Mikkel Jersin, who work for Snow Globe .

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Stephan Hoffmann on behalf of Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH, Berlin. Patrizia Carlucci speaks Anja in the German version.

Filming and film music

Filming began on September 20, 2016 in Oslo , then took place in the Swedish cities of Gothenburg , Trollhättan and Kiruna and ended after 44 days of shooting.

The total production costs amount to around 47,500,000 Norwegian kroner, which corresponds to around 5.2 million euros.

The music for the film was composed by Ola Flottum . The soundtrack for the film includes 21 pieces of music and was released by The Orchard on November 10, 2017.

publication

The Orchard secured the rights to the film in North America.

The film premiered on September 10, 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival , was released in Norwegian cinemas on September 15, 2017, and was subsequently screened at the New York Film Festival and the London Film Festival . In November 2017 the film was shown at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck . A theatrical release in Germany took place on March 22, 2018.

reception

Age rating

In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The story of the film is told calmly and there are no action scenes. However, there are always mysterious scenes in which inexplicable things happen. These are dramatic in terms of content (e.g. if the father catches fire without any external influence), but the restrained visual representation does not overwhelm children and young people from the age of 12. Viewers of this age can also understand and appropriately process the psychological aspects of the story (e.g. the student's guilty feelings). Despite the complex issue, there is therefore no lasting fear or uncertainty to fear. "

Reviews

So far, the film has won over 93 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.3 out of a possible 10 points.

Tim Slagman from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung says that the Norwegian director Joachim Trier made a film with small gestures and large pictures, full of wishes and hopes, but also full of fear and darkness: “Trier does not display this mystery with rich effects, but he explores it contemplatively, while the delicate, confused and perhaps only seemingly innocent face of Eili Harboe seems to soak up the widescreen format. "

Knut Elstermann of MDR culture says Harboe games of magical light this woman who is learning painfully to understand their uniqueness, and Thelma is Trier a very subtle Mystery - Thriller succeeded where no special effects equip it with the center, but the tragic story of his heroine who is excluded from the world due to her uncanny giftedness: "An intensive film about religious oppression and the liberation from imposed guilt and shame."

Julia Marx from the Tages-Anzeiger thinks that anyone who needs juicy shocks and pig's blood to feel well entertained shouldn't get their money's worth with the film, but Thelma unfolds its own pull. For example, the scene in which Thelma and Anja visit a dance theater is a cabinet piece of slowly building erotic tension, which manifests itself in the ominous swaying of a ceiling construction. First and foremost, however, the effect of the film rests on the main actress Eili Harboe, who is sometimes impenetrably mysterious, sometimes naive childish, innocent-guilty, but never affected, also pulls us viewers under her spell, according to Marx.

The gay and lesbian magazine Queer describes Thelma as a sensual mystery thriller that captivates on a visual level as a masterful bow to the cinema of the 1980s: “Carried by the fantastic, young leading actress Eili Harboe, Thelma designs supernatural cinema between fascinating imagery and unleashed symbolism. “Fabian Schäfer also says that Trier staged the coming-of-age drama slowly, gently and somberly, and that the camera is almost always close to the actors, which makes their emotions particularly immediate, haunting and understandable. If he gives the drama a mysterious character and if the lines between reality and dreams blur, Trier would succeed in this genre mix between drama and psychological mystery thriller extremely well. It is a great strength of the film when it is no longer clear where the myth begins and where reality ends, and Trier does not explain its protagonist, but rather gives Thelma the space and time to find herself, says Schäfer.

Nadine Lange from Tagesspiegel thinks that the director makes no secret of his admiration for Alfred Hitchcock , such as his films Marnie and The Birds , and alludes clearly to Brian De Palma , who was influenced by Hitchcock and whose Carrie was a distant American cousin of his heroine could be. The fact that Thelma still seems neither epigone nor overloaded is due to the haunting play of the two main actresses, the great calm of the staging and the almost cold-blooded casualness with which Trier integrates horror images into the plot, according to Lange. The struggle of his protagonist culminates in a brilliant scene in which Thelma's supernatural powers are driven into superhero-like dimensions during a medical examination in a high-tech laboratory , so Lange, which she could easily join the X-Men : “Thelma has to learn to control their abilities, not to save worlds, but only to save themselves. "

At the beginning of September 2017 it was announced that Norway would submit the film as a nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film for the 2018 Academy Awards .

Awards

On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Ola Fløttum's work was on a shortlist from which the nominations for the Best Film Music category at the 2018 Academy Awards were made. The following is a selection of nominations for other film awards.

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

The norske filmfestivalen 2017

Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2018

  • Award for best foreign language film

Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2017

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2017

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Thelma . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 176277 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Patricia Batlle: "Thelma": Norway's Oscar hope in Lübeck In: ndr.de, November 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ https://www.nrk.no/kultur/millionstotte-til-ny-trier-film-1.12979574
  4. ↑ http://cphfilmfund.com/en/the-fund-invests-in-new-joachim-trier-feature/
  5. ↑ http://www.dfi.dk/Nyheder/FILMupdate/2016/September/Joachim-Triers-Thelma-med-dansk-stoette.aspx
  6. ↑ a b http://www.screendaily.com/news/le-pacte-joins-joachim-triers-thelma/5109608.article
  7. ↑ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2017/11/07/thelma-soundtrack-details/
  8. ↑ Brent Lang and Elsa Keslassy: The Orchard Nabs Joachim Trier's Supernatural Thriller 'Thelma' In: Variety, April 20, 2017.
  9. ↑ Toronto International Film Festival 2017. Official Film Schedule In: tiff.net. Retrieved on August 23, 2017 (PDF; 852 KB)
  10. ↑ Brent Lang: Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes Movies From Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Alexander Payne In: Variety, July 25, 2017.
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  12. ↑ All films in the 2017 BFI London Film Festival In: bfi.org.uk. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  13. ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: New York Film Festival Main Slate: 'The Square', 'The Rider', 'Mudbound', 'Meyerowitz Stories' & More In: deadline.com, August 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ http://www.luebeck.de/filmtage/de/programm/movie/view/2017/8626.html
  15. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  16. ^ Reasons for approval for Thelma In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  17. ↑ Thelma In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  18. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/thelma-ein-maedchen-mit-raetselhaben-kraeften-ld.1367349
  19. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/kultur/empfänger/thelma-filmkritik-elstermann-100.html
  20. ↑ https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zueritipp/kino/auf-duennem-eis/story/23043503
  21. ↑ In search of sexual identity: Thelma In: queer.de, March 17, 2018.
  22. ↑ Fabian Schäfer: Homosexual feelings arouse supernatural abilities In: queer.de, March 22, 2018.
  23. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/queerspiegel/coming-of-age-film-thelma-die-unzaehmbare/21098316.html
  24. ↑ http://deadline.com/2017/09/thelma-norway-oscar-submission-joachim-trier-1202161840/
  25. ↑ https://www.nrk.no/kultur/_thelma_-blir-den-norske-oscar-kandidaten-1.13673658
  26. ↑ Zack Sharf: Oscars 2018: Best Original Score Shortlist Includes 'The Shape of Water', 'All the Money in the World' and More In: indiewire.com, December 18, 2017.
  27. ↑ Kristopher Tapley, 'Shape of Water' Leads Critics' Choice Film Nominations In: Variety, December 6, 2017.
  28. ↑ Chris Evangelista: 2017 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Nominations Announced In: slashfilm.com, December 4, 2017.
  29. ↑ 2017 Awards Winners ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phoenixfilmcriticssociety.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: phoenixfilmcriticssociety.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  30. ↑ The 2017 WAFCA Awards In: wafca.com, December 8, 2017.