#thelma 2017

[mulderscully]

THELMA (2017) dir. Joachim Trier

I was in love with her. And she was in love with me.

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[bloodaria]

Thelma (2017) dir. Joachim Trier

#thelma #thelma 2017 #stills #horrorstills #horror #m*

[gorydean]

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures is one of the most misunderstood of disorders. For 3,000 years, people believed it was something supernatural. That you were being invaded or possessed by witches who punished the sick. The word "seizure" means being possessed by external powers, either gods or demons, depending on what century you are living in.

THELMA (2017) // SPN (2005-2020)

#lgbt icons :] #seizure cw #spnedit #samwinchesteredit #sam winchester #thelma #thelma 2017 #supernatural #spn #spn parallels #comparatives #filmtvdaily #cinematv #filmtvcentral #* #gif warning

[staghunters]

THE BASEMENT RETURNS

By semi-popular demand, and because this is one of my favorite (horror) films of all time, next Sunday the basement will be screening Thelma!

What?: Thelma (2017) is a drama-thriller in which all the danger comes from within.

Thelma, freshly arrived at college, needs to navigate her new surroundings while away from her strict and religious family. Her friendship with Anja might be turning into something more, bringing all kinds of risks.

Why should you watch it?: Thelma was part of my bachelor thesis on queer horror! It's a great example of a more recent trend that has horror and sexuality approached from a different angle than the monster wreaking havoc. The film is slow, taking it's time to shine a light on all of Thelma's facets and troubles. It may be less of a horror aimed to scare you, but it's ending doesn't have to make it less terrifying.

(Berend Jan Bockting for De Volkskrant, December 7 2017)

Thelma is Trier's Marvel film without super villain or crumbling skyscrapers. The origin story of the hero here is a beautiful and empathetic coming-of-age story about a girl and her burgeoning sexuality; about learning to stand on your own two feet; full of reflections on origin, religion, and evolution. Trier nudges his protagonist softly into the realm of fantasy, but Thelma remains all too realistic.

Some warnings!: Seizures are plot-relevant but can be triggering to some. There is a number of them throughtout the film. Parental abuse as well as abuse in some religious context also appears. Animal death is prominent in one or two scenes. The film does offer a lot of breathing room, but do check for detailed trigger warnings if you think something might upset you.

When?: Sunday December 3 at 10pm CEST!

Kosmi link will be share ~20 minutes in advance

#ninas basement #thelma 2017 #i am so normal about this one yall

[cipheramnesia]

Can you talk about Thelma (2017)?

Thelma is too much for one ask, but I can try. I'm fairly confident there are some specific religious and cultural touchstones I'm not familiar enough to unpack for starters, and the movie itself is so dense with possible readings that I could approach it from at least three separate angles. It's like... where exactly do I start at this?

Just on the most surface level, we're looking at an X-Men situation with the sudden introduction a superhuman ability in someone's life is used to parallel a wide array of different experiences of systemic oppression - I think mainly patriarchal, sexual, and religious but these are all wrapped together in much the same was as they tend to be in individual lives.

What personally gets my heart aflutter over Thelma are its queer elements. Not that these can be neatly separated from the others, but the way it plays with a level of ambiguity in the attraction between the protagonist and her love interest feels especially true to the queer experience of wondering if we're experiencing kind of real mutual attraction, or if we're only seeing things in our imagination - the way queerness is treated as something taboo, even when it's socially permissible, makes finding personal connections a delicate process of hope and guessing. It transforms the relationship elements of the movie seen through that specific lens, including moments where our protagonist is struggling so hard against herself that she tries to make her own sexuality vanish.

But it doesn't operate exclusively as a queer movie, and that's part of why there's just... just so much stuff to try and work through here. I feel like a huge amount of the underlying text of the movie rests on how her capabilities horrify her parents and prompt them to find ways to suppress them, to keep her under control. Additionally, the way she works her way through the medical system as they find themselves at a loss to discern any easy answers to her symptoms. And for that matter, the notion that her supernatural abilities are themselves something wrong with her is also rife with meaning to any disenfranchised group, not just queers or women or non-xians.

I suppose it's a little weird to discuss what I think the movie is about without bringing up... what the movie is about, but there's not a large amount that happens precisely. Or more directly the plot, unadorned, is not particularly complicated. Although I expect if you're hanging around this blog, you might be really interested to learn about a movie which is all about a young woman developing supernatural powers to control reality, and eventually breaking free from her oppressive (albeit loving) xian parents.

Not to sound pretentious, if this was made in the USA, it would be quite a bit more spectacle and flash. Thelma the movie and protagonist both are quiet revolutions, tense with knowing something extraordinary is happening, but not knowing how much will survive it. Some of it put me in mind of Dario Argento, even if it's not quite as flamboyant, there's an emotional intensity and an obsessive focus to the camera work that feels familiar. The colors are not quite as bright and primary as Argento's work, but they feel dense and saturated in the same way. If a movie like X-Men captures the explosive emotions and anger of learning you're different in some way society does not accept, Thelma captures its alternate quite despair and seething rage.

But this all really just gets maybe a little under the surface. I would happily translate the family losing a son to their daughters power as metaphoric to how some families treat their trans children. The ambiguity of the ending, the significance of the birds and snakes as metaphors, the use of symbolic reflections all need greater exploration to the point where this film has a fair thesis worth of material contained within. It's a rare, special, and complicated movie which I would hope everyone takes the time to see (with the exception of people with serious medical concerns over flashing lights, it has A LOT of those). Thelma is about making the decision to burn bright while everyone around you sits with quietly folded hands.

#thelma 2017 #thelma 2018 #horror movies #queer horror #Joachim Trier

[arrchhive]

like or reblog. enjoy babies.

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[angelfishofthelord]

for pride ill be sharing some of my favorite queer movies and shows. most of them will be horror but there will be some fluffy ones!

first up we got thelma (2017), a norwegian thriller/supernatural movie which is so very gay. like gayness-causes-me-to-levitate gay.

my favorite thing about this movie, besides the empowering queer narrative, is the absolutely stunning visuals. the cinematography is breathtaking and so is the scene composition. the tension is so vivid that you get this mix of tenderness and terror all throughout almost every interaction

#angelfish pride #movie recc #queer cinema #thelma 2017 #sapphic movies #joachim trier #foreign film #the ending is also mmmmm many thoughts #pride month

[clarafordahwin]

I love how in Thelma (2017), her parents describe her powers as "if you want something bad enough, it will happen." The issue isn't even the violence, the loss of life, the power, it's the want. We mustn't want.

#thelma 2017 #shut up clark

[celluloidrainbow]

THELMA (2017) dir. Joachim Trier Having just enrolled at a university in Oslo against her stern parents' will, the sheltered Biology freshman and devout Christian, Thelma, leaves for the first time the isolated Norwegian countryside, to start a new life away from home. Tangibly lonely, a casual conversation and one unexpected friendship with the beautiful fellow student, Anja, will broaden Thelma's hazy horizons; however, as the glacially alluring misfit wrestles with an onslaught of novel feelings, little by little, an unprecedented psychosomatic manifestation of repressed emotions start to take over. Indeed, a mystery cloaks soft-spoken Thelma's past, and the more she struggles to renounce her nebulous desire, the more violent becomes her quivering awakening. Can Thelma unearth a denied truth behind the stinging temptation? (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #lesbian cinema #thelma #thelma 2017 #norwegian cinema #lgbt #lesbian #norway #lgbt film #lesbian film #norwegian film #lgbt movie #lesbian movies #norwegian movies #lgbt media #lesbian media #queer cinema #european cinema #eili harboe #kaya wilkins #joachim trier #2017 #2010s #2010s movies #2010s films #2010s cinema

[ettucamus]

thelma (2017) dir. joachim trier / for sondra by passion pit / australia by attic abasement / switzerland by soccer mommy

#thelma 2017 #thelma #joachim trier #these songs always give me big thelma feels

[cats-and-cacti]

Thelma (2017) is soooo garden song by Phoebe bridgers

#the doctor put her hands over my liver she told me my resentments getting smaller no I’m not afraid of hard work I get everything I want #also when I grow up I’m gonna look up from my phone and see my life and it looks just like a recurring dream I’m at the movies #I don’t remember what I’m seeing the screen turns into a title wave then it’s a dorm room like a hedge maze and when I find you #you touch my leg and I insist but I wake up before we do it #Thelma 2017 #garden song #pheobe bridgers

[patrick-zweigs]

eili harboe shot by pernille sandberg

#eili harboe #ebba succession #thelma 2017

[bloodaria]

Thelma (2017) dir. Joachim Trier

#thelma #thelma 2017 #stills #horror #horrorstills #m*

[junosfilmjournal]

thelma (2017) dir. joachim trier

#thelma 2017 #joachim trier #queer cinema

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.

The mod hasn't seen this movie but it's got lesbians so probably will see it soon.

#thelma (2017) #supernatural horror #superpowers character #lgbtq #2010s #norway #european movie #mentionable warning #child death #horror #movies #poll #more than 50% havent heard

[sesiondemadrugada]

Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017).

#thelma #thelma (2017) #joachim trier #olivier bugge coutté #jakob ihre #roger rosenberg #ellen dæhli ystehede