Jannis Lenz’s ‘Oasis’ Explores Teen Trauma Through Macabre Rituals

Teens Seek to Heal Wounds Through Macabre Rituals in Jannis Lenz’s ‘Oasis,’ With Hints of the Influence of Jessica Hausner, Michael Haneke

Three teenagers, unclothed, stand close to one another in a forest, gently caressing the wounds they have inflicted on one another. This is the climactic moment in “Oasis,” a film that at times feels like a Grimms Brothers fairytale, and, at others, an all-too-real vision of modern-day youth in crisis. If you were told that […]

By Leo Barraclough