Thale

 

Thale 2012

• Director: Aleksander Nordaas
• Seen by this director: Lethal Weapon, Omen, many TV series
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold, Jon Sigve Skard
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• None of them
• Why? Norwegian
• 28 October 2022      

       Elvis (Nervold) and Leo (Skard) clean up messy corpses in northern Norway. Elvis finds a passage in a shed. At the end of the passage a young woman, Thale (Reinåmo) jumps out of a bathtub filled with murky water, scaring them half to death. Then they find a cassette tape with a Swedish man’s voice to which Thale reacts with fear. It seems she has been used for some kind of research.

       It’s based on the Norwegian folk tale of the hulda. It’s slow and dreamy and mysterious. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but it’s rather creepy. Forests can be creepy, especially Norwegian (and Swedish) forests with huldas and trolls and other supernatural beings live.

       I think Nordaas is suffering from some kind of puerile sex fantasies. But it’s an OK film.      

2½ * of 5