Thelma
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
Our read · Thelma (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive thriller · supernatural · norwegian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Thelma
What watching it is actually like.
“You want slow-burn queer supernatural longing with eerie Norwegian restraint.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if epileptic seizures and cryptic psychokinesis frustrate more than intrigue.
The reading.
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