Not every child with nascent paranormal abilities gets scooped up into Professor Xavier’s school for incipient X-Men.
Some, like those in Eskil Vogt’s superbly atmospheric, deftly crafted horror “The Innocents,” live in massive Norwegian tower blocks — concrete jungles set in deep forests bathed in cool, endless Nordic summer sun — and hone their powers on rocks and deeply unfortunate cats.
; its most striking aspect may just be the empathy Vogt displays for his 7- to 11-year-old stars, and the extraordinary juvenile performances that empathy brings out.The first glimmer of the supernatural is a tiny one: Blink and you’ll miss it.
A bottle cap, dropped from a little girl’s fist, falls crookedly, zagging from where she stands to land a few feet away.
The girl is Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), a new arrival to this apartment complex, along with her parents (Ellen Dorrit Pedersen and Morten Svartveit
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