{"id":132991,"date":"2017-11-10T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132991"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:17:25","slug":"review-joachim-triers-thelma-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132991","title":{"rendered":"Review: Joachim Trier&#8217;s <i>Thelma<\/i> (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=132996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132996\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/large_thelma_ver2_xlg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/large_thelma_ver2_xlg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/large_thelma_ver2_xlg-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/large_thelma_ver2_xlg-135x200.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/large_thelma_ver2_xlg-270x400.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI love Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier&#8217;s films: check out <i>Oslo, August 31st<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=67577\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thoughts here<\/a>), and the film which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=99762\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the best movie poster by a LONG shot<\/a> in 2015, <i>Louder Than Bombs<\/i>. He covers the anxiety of modern life, its intersections of dread and war and addiction and isolation. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a mystery wrapped in an enigma. And it&#8217;s truly creepy at times. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/thelma-2017\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">My review of <i>Thelma<\/i><\/a> is now up at Rogerebert.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2497,2311,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147959,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132991\/revisions\/147959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}