Kød & blod

The movie has a slow and steady pace, introducing the viewer gently to Ida's view of her manipulative and emotionally abusive family. Getting to know the family is a disruptive journey between love and hate, with the seemingly innocent Ida as the main conductor for the many and often subtlety shown emotions on screen. In a calm yet energetic way the plot unfolds while the viewer remains guessing about the complex characters and their relationships.

The deeper Ida is involved with family matters the more inevitable her inner conflict becomes. In a shocking showdown the captured energy can be released for once.

Despite great actors this movie is a waste of time. A mix of a bad american tv show about violence and drugs, a bit of mafia-vibe and a lovestory.

The original Danish title is better, I think, but other than that I'm at a loss to explain some of the low star reviews for this film. I started watching it thinking I'd maybe give it half an hour, and then ninety minutes later when the credits rolled, I was genuinely surprised that so much time had passed.

The film is deceptively slow paced, especially at the start, but the slow build up of unsettling atmosphere is such that you don't really notice. The direction and performances are uniformly excellent, pulling you almost reluctantly from one scene to the next, because you have to know what will happen when the tension finally breaks.

The film has a moment when you think some resolution has been reached and then it completely smacks you out of left field with an ending I, for one, did not see coming.

Definitely worth your time.

Great actors but you could barely hear what they were saying because most actors were to lazy and speaking to fast. without subtitles it would have been impossible to hear what they saying. Movie could have been great with better scripting and training to speak.

(AFI) Families come in all shapes, sizes and career inclinations. After her mother dies suddenly in a car accident, introverted 17-year-old Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) is welcomed with open arms by her overbearing aunt and druggy grown cousins, who live together in the Danish countryside. Unfortunately for Ida, her aunt is the head of a criminal debt collection enterprise overseeing her trio of gangster sons. Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Ida's aunt with a mesmerizing blend of malevolent and maternal. Part coming-of-age tale, part dysfunctional family drama, part social realism, this absorbing and stylish gangster thriller is seen from the tomboyish Ida's perspective. Told with visual panache and marked by convincing performances, WILDLAND explores the destructive legacy of criminality and the notion of familial emotional debt.