The Innocents
Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.
- Released: 2021-09-03
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Thrillers
- Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Morten Svartveit, Kadra Yusuf, Lisa Tønne, Nor Erik Vaagland Torgersen, Irina Eidsvold Tøien, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Kim Atle Hansen, Birgit Nordby
- Director: Eskil Vogt
Comments
- jorisvoorn - 3 January 2023
Pure Innocent Beauty
It's hard to tell how someone else would see this movie, but as a parent I was deeply moved by the story, told from the perspective of four small children. None of them have an easy life, each have they own family drama's, and they find each other while left on their own by their parents.
This is not a children's movie, and at times not easy to watch. But every scene, every shot serves a purpose and sets the viewer up for what is yet to come.
What is left is almost two hours of sheer cinematic beauty with some of the best camera work you'll see from the last few years, and a story that develops slowly and never states the obvious. It's arthouse cinema at its best, and maybe not supposed to be for everyone, but for those who appreciate high quality and original films this movie is a must.
A film with children playing the main roles can be challenging to watch, but that wasn't the case with The Innocents. The kids are incredible, every scene is convincing and real, so much that it mad me remember being 9 years old myself.
I can't wait to watch this again with my own children, although it might take a few years till they're old enough. - ejohnson-20283 - 22 October 2022
Disturbing
I think Ben and Ida were evil to begin with, Aisha and Anna were the actual innocents.
In the beginning Ben and Ida are torturing a cat and Ben kills it, Ida is pinching her autistic sister, Ben is even more sadistic in his treatment of his mother and others around him, causing serious injuries and death.
Aisha and Anna are kind and sweet girls. It is sweet the way Aisha interacts with Anna and teaches her to speak again.
The children in this movie are very good actors.
The movie has intense build up of tension and foreboding, the feeling of something bad is going to happen, again and again and it does happen.
Ben takes revenge on everyone that has ever slighted him in the least.
If children actually had these powers, we'd all be dead.
