To "Innocent" children with hands full of awful powers

• Four kids discover paranormal powers in a Norwegian suburb.

• “The Innocents” shares their increasingly dangerous experiences.

• This very disturbing film won awards at L'Etrange Festival and at the Gérardmer Festival.

Four Norwegian children discover they have paranormal powers but

has nothing to do with an American superhero movie.

It's one of the most disturbing films of recent months.

No wonder he was rewarded at the Etrange Festival, then at the Gérardmer Festival.

"I was inspired by my own childhood," says director Eskil Vogt at

.

I remember staying for a very long time staring at a glass, hoping to make it move by my mental power without, of course, succeeding.

The young protagonists of this cruel tale don't just move dishes.

Their experiments quickly become very dangerous.

A lonely child but not a monster

“When you are a child, you are powerless because you do not decide anything yourself: you obey your parents and other adults, insists the director.

One dreams of imposing one's will on the world and this remains a fantasy for quite a long time.

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Screenwriter of Joaquim Trier since 2001 until the recent

and director of

(2014), Eskil Vogt knows how to raise the tension around kids left to fend for themselves in a city emptied of its inhabitants in the heart of the summer.

"The families of the heroes couldn't go on vacation," he said.

This social aspect is important in the script, but the gender and ethnicity of the characters were not decided until the casting, according to the young performers I met.

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A kid of Pakistani origin is very scary by terrorizing three girls, including a young autistic girl.

“Sam Ashraf was ideal for the role of which he understood all the complexity, remembers Eskil Vogt.

For me, he does not represent absolute evil but a lonely and unhappy boy.

I don't see him as a monster, even if he commits inexcusable acts.

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A childish nightmare

The director makes no concessions to plunge the viewer into a universe of childish nightmare as fascinating as it is traumatic.

We think of the

in front of this sober, almost minimalist film, which its realism makes chilling.

“Children like to experiment without always understanding the consequences of their actions.

They are born without moral codes and can behave like sociopaths”, insists the filmmaker.

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