I love Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier’s films: check out Oslo, August 31st (thoughts here), and the film which had the best movie poster by a LONG shot in 2015, Louder Than Bombs. He covers the anxiety of modern life, its intersections of dread and war and addiction and isolation.
He moves into Genre territory with his latest, a story about a religious girl who finds herself overtaken by seizures when she starts college away from her parents. It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma. And it’s truly creepy at times.
My review of Thelma is now up at Rogerebert.com.
