Young and innocent

Eskil Vogt’s powerful new film – a coming-of-age story that’s also a battle between good and evil played out between children – boasts a brilliant young cast and an unflinching gaze, says Daniel King

TO SEND REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT THE EDITOR AT DRSUTTON@FORTEANTIMES.COM The Innocents Dir Eskil Vogt, Norway 2021 In cinemas and online Nothing whatsoever to do with Henry James (or Deborah Kerr), this Norwegian supernatural horror starts slowly but gradually draws you in and puts you under its spell. The film centres on a bunch of children on a housing estate. There is Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), a resentful girl who is jealous of her autistic elder sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad), who gets all the attention from their parents. There is Ben (Sam Ashraf), an Asian immigrant who lives with his neglectful mother and spends most of his time outside. And there is Aisha (Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim), a kind-hearted little girl who lives with her mother and misses her absent…

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