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.

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... Mehr erfahren

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

...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.