Kosmorama's film tips - week 19
Kosmorama recommends quality films for the upcoming week. You can catch these titles either on the big screen or on various streaming services!
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The Legend of Ochi
Where: Trondheim Kino
The shy girl Yuri (Helena Zengel) grows up in a remote village where going outside after nightfall is strictly forbidden. All her life, she has been taught to fear the dangerous and mysterious forest creatures known as the ochi.
When a baby ochi is left behind by its pack, Yuri sets out on the adventure of a lifetime to help it find its way home. Her father and adoptive brother try to stop her, but maybe the mysterious ochi aren't as dangerous as everyone assumes?
Age rating: 12 years
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Hvor: Cinemateket
The feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me came as a major surprise to most—both to fans of the Twin Peaks TV series and to more casually interested viewers. When the show ended in a tangle of unresolved plotlines, many felt robbed of a proper conclusion—something this film could be said to be the very antithesis of. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me takes place in the time leading up to the events of the series, from about a year prior (when Teresa Banks is murdered) to the final seven days before Pete Martell finds Laura Palmer on the shoreline, “wrapped in plastic.”
The film aims to give insight into Laura's final days and to explore her relationship with her father and with Bob—the personification of evil. Alongside Eraserhead, Fire Walk with Me stands as one of Lynch’s darkest works. All the humor and human warmth present in the series has been stripped away. What remains is a sustained nightmare made up of a long sequence of utterly bizarre events.
The film opens with the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks, which is referenced at the start of Twin Peaks. Agent Cooper becomes involved when the two agents originally assigned to the case mysteriously disappear. No explanation is given for what happens in this sequence. A murder has taken place, federal agents arrive to investigate, and they encounter local townsfolk and police officers—many of whom are peculiar characters, just like in Twin Peaks a year later.
The same story can be told in different ways, and different stories can appear eerily similar. These paradoxical elements relate to the theme of doubles, which Lynch would later explore further in Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. A return visit to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is sure to be of great interest to anyone who has recently watched Twin Peaks: The Return.
Age limit: 18 years
Love Lies Bleeding
Where: Streaming
The reclusive gym manager Lou falls head over heels for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder on her way to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love takes a violent turn, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
