Flickan, Mamman och Demonerna (2016) - Directed by Suzanne Osten

This movie is about Ti, her psychotic and schizophrenic Mother Siri who hides from the surrounding world in a very stylish retro apartment in stockholm. The mom has cut all connections with her close ones so nobody knows where they are and the apartment is filled quickly with art-full stinking piles of trash.Siri is also possessed with lots of demons who walks all over the apartment, take control over her

but it's only her that can see and talk to the demons.They forbid bathroom visits so Ti have to pee in a jars who is everywhere in their home. They eat direct right from tin cans. Ti´s dress is very filthy but the mom still looks like she is from a hollywood movie from the 40s. While the mother hallucinates and intrigues in a psychotic intoxication the little girl goes to school filthy without breakfast and wears her filthy karate clothes, When the classmates picks up on that she smells so bad Ti is getting in fights.

Ti has learned that anyone can be a demon and that her mum can anytime explode in a blow-up.

Although Ti is very loyal, never afraid of her, try to encourage her mother without having another one to talk to and it's heart wrenching. They're relationship is very softhearted, the play card and Siri tells fairy tales to her daughter while she is painting on the walls. But Ti is ashamed of her when she goes to school and behave strange there.

The Demons themself represents as white painted, grimaced actors who manipulates, threatens, plagues and plays with Siri as a living puppet. Some of the scenes with the demons works good, while some was ok. Some actors is very wooden But Maria Sundboms and Esther Quigley who plays the Mother and Daughter in the movie (in real life too) was both brilliant.

The movie is very theatrical rather than cinematic especially in the apartment scenes and i quite liked how it was theatrical but for some people that can be a negative. That makes that you get a little distance to the scary reality who is depicted, but also that the course of events feels simplified.

Suzanne Ostens nightmare depiction is quite unique in the child-youth genre because it

doesn´t compromise with it´s hard subject and there is one scene when something horrifying happens and i forgot i watched a movie!

Its really great too see a female director who is over 50 that maked a quality movie (plus she is swedish!) and the directing was great from her!

Rating 9/10