{"id":119931,"date":"2013-04-03T01:54:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=119931"},"modified":"2013-04-02T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T05:56:11","slug":"thale-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/04\/03\/thale-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Thale Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Thale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Aleksander Nordaas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Erlend Norvold, Jon Sigve Skard, Silje Rein\u00e5mo, Morten Andresen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supernaturally tinged Norwegian mystery-horror import &#8220;Thale&#8221; unfolds, on a narrative level, like some weird hybrid of &#8220;Sunshine Cleaning,&#8221; &#8220;Splice&#8221; and &#8220;Lady in the Water&#8221; &#8212; a work that dances around a couple moods and genres without ever really wholeheartedly committing to one in particular. Telling the story of a surprise woodland contact between a pair of guys and an awakened, captive huldra &#8212; a nymph-like creature of Scandinavian folklore &#8212; writer-director Aleksander Nordaas&#8217; work gives off a certain eerie vibe that, along with its regional specificity, add up to give the movie a pungent originality. But &#8220;Thale&#8221; is ultimately all wind-up, failing to take its characters to more interesting places.<\/p>\n<p>The unflappable Leo (Jon Sigve Skard, kind of favoring a Nordic Christopher Eccleston) heads up &#8220;No Shit Cleaning Service,&#8221; a crime scene scrubbing company. Perhaps against better judgment, he&#8217;s thrown a bit of work to his friend Elvis (Erlend Norvold), with vomitous consequences. Tasked with finding the scattered remains of an old man at a cabin in the woods, Leo and Elvis instead discover a mute girl (Silje Rein\u00e5mo) and a bunch of audio tapes in which said man can be heard talking about the girl&#8217;s highly adaptive nature, and how she&#8217;s &#8220;different than&#8221; her sisters. As Elvis starts to seemingly become able to bridge the communication gap they also make a rather shocking discovery in a freezer, leading them to question just how dangerous this girl might be.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a nice fog of intrigue that surrounds &#8220;Thale&#8221; for a good long while, there&#8217;s also an imperturbability to the entire movie, which kind of dawdles and drags. For a long time &#8220;Thale&#8221; isn&#8217;t really a horror movie, even in any Gothic sense, but instead just a mystery about this girl&#8217;s origins, and how she&#8217;s survived seemingly on her own for an indeterminate length of time. This works, but only up to a point. At around the 45-minute mark, there&#8217;s a nice conversation between Leo and Elvis in which some of their vulnerabilities are stripped bare, and for a moment it looks as if &#8220;Thale&#8221; is going to dive headlong into a story of fraternal drift, with its mysterious title waif serving only as a joint kickstarter and metaphorical connection for the two. This doesn&#8217;t come to full fruition, but it would have likely been more rewarding than some of the moves &#8220;Thale&#8221; ends up making.<\/p>\n<p>At a certain point, the movie&#8217;s slow-peddled nature either becomes wholly mesmeric or a bit of a put-on. For me it was the latter &#8212; it felt like a lot of artful dodging in service of a story that wasn&#8217;t really fully fleshed out, or at least not taken in interesting directions. &#8220;Thale&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really delve substantively into mythology &#8212; its characters aren&#8217;t scientists, admittedly &#8212; so when others come looking for Thale, plunging Leo and Elvis into a greater danger, it feels like a leap into tension unearned, nipped from some screenwriting manual.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as his own cinematographer, camera operator and editor, Nordaas delivers an enigmatic aria in many respects. A director like Brad Anderson would be able to turn this into a work of suffocating anxiety, though. As is, &#8220;Thale&#8221; is a movie that&#8217;s less than the sum of its parts &#8212; interesting around the edges, but not fully developed, and lacking any sort of revelatory punch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> &#8220;Thale&#8221; screens in theaters this week in Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Denver and Portland &#8212; check your local listings, as they say &#8212; and then arrives on home video and VOD later in the month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silje Rein\u00e5mo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thale-Movie-Review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thale-Movie-Review.jpg\" alt=\"Thale Movie Review\" title=\"Thale Movie Review\" width=\"600\" 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