Film tips week 21
Kosmorama recommends quality films for the week. You can catch these titles either on the big screen or on various streaming services! This week, we recommend a couple of terrifying horror films, as well as a French classic at the Cinemateket!
Obsession
Where: Trondheim Kino
The hopeless romantic Bear is in love with his co-worker Nikki, but he can never bring himself to tell her how he feels. One day, he discovers an opportunity to have one wish granted, and he wishes for her unconditional love. The relationship that instantly blossoms soon becomes claustrophobic and disturbing, making Bear wish he had thought more carefully before starting it.
Obsession is Barker’s feature film debut, following several genre-bending short films on YouTube. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, was later screened at the Fantastic Fest, won the audience award at the Sitges Film Festival, and is making its final stop at South by Southwest.
© Focus Features
The Story of Adele H.
Where: Cinemateket in Trondheim
In 1863, Adèle Hugo, daughter of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with Lieutenant Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Despite his rejection, she follows him to Halifax and takes the name Adèle Lewly. Pinson continues to reject her, but Adèle becomes increasingly obsessed with winning his love.
A few months before acting in one of the leading roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, François Truffaut directed two films that demonstrate the breadth of his filmmaking. The Story of Adèle H. positions itself, like Jules and Jim, within the romantic tradition that characterizes much of Truffaut’s filmography, elevated further by Néstor Almendros’ lyrical cinematography. The second film, Small Change, stands in sharp contrast, as Truffaut further develops the ensemble storytelling technique from Day for Night, while adding a social engagement rarely seen so clearly since The 400 Blows. The Story of Adèle H. occupies a fascinating space in Truffaut’s body of work, where intimate romantic dramas and broader social portrayals exist side by side.
© Les Artistes Associés
Bring her Back
Where: Streaming
Was Obsession not scary enough for you in theaters? Then try this Australian horror film from the directors behind Talk to Me!
About the film:
A brother and sister move in with their new foster mother in a remote house. There, they discover a horrifying ritual that turns their lives into a living nightmare.
© SF Norge
