Thelma

...is a modern look at witchcraft, and an attempt to solve the mystery of whether she will choose to be a good witch or a bad one.

...the film becomes an open-ended saga about rejecting family to pursue your own independent path, and keeps us wondering just how much scorched earth – or flesh, for that matter – Thelma intends to leave behind.

...a beguiling tale of a young woman whose burgeoning sexuality and passage into adulthood coincides with the realization that she has some extremely powerful psychic abilities.

Det, der overfladisk set, ser dagligdags almindeligt ud, er både farligt, mystisk og uforklarligt. Her er suspense a la Hitchcock, brutalitet som hos De Palma, tilsat et stænk af Edgar Allen Poes uforudsigelige uhygge.

Thelmas sindelag, og særligt hendes ensomhed, er skildret varieret i Jakob Ihres fotografering, der veksler mellem den nu Trier’ske signatur, et nærbillede af et øre set bagfra, og de imponerende supertotalbilleder af Thelmas campus set i fjernt f... Read more

Trier gör det med perfekt doserad blandning av diaboli och diskbänksrealism.