Synopsis
Following a car accident, which kills her mother, 17-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life.
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Cast
- Sandra Guldberg KamppIda
- Sidse Babett KnudsenBodil
- Joachim FjelstrupJonas
- Elliott Crosset HoveDavid
- Besir ZeciriMads
- Carla Philip RøderAnna
- Sofie TorpMarie
- Omar ShargawiOmar
- Benjamin KitterPolice officer Jonathan
- Henrik VestergårdSarah's ex-husband
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Wildland is an original, a compelling gangster film unusually driven by women and told in stark, measured strokes. A unique calling card for director Jeanette Nordahl. - 80
The Observer (UK)
This lean Danish drama is not wholly original – David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom is an obvious comparison – but it’s a tense, suspenseful piece of storytelling and a showcase for a treacherously mercurial performance from Knudsen as the fearsome matriarch. - 70
The New York Times
So committed to maintaining an enigmatically sinister atmosphere, the film fails to build out the many compelling issues it raises about toxic masculinity and familial gaslighting. Nevertheless, some inspired confrontations, and a commanding performance by Sidse Babett Knudsen, who plays the hot-and-cold matriarch, Bodil, makes “Wildland” an absorbing and highly watchable psychodrama. - 63
Movie Nation
First time feature director Jeannette Nordahl puts us in Ida’s shoes and makes us ponder her uncertain fate just enough to make Wildland work.
