One review on 29 Jan 2022
Denmark 2020
Running time: 89 mins
Wildland
Kød & blod
Director : Jeanette Nordahl
Colour: Colour
Sound: Stereo
Tech Notes: Stereo
Synopsis
17 year old Ida's mother dies (possibly of a drug/alcohol od) and she goes to live with her aunt's family who she has barely seen. Transpires that the aunt and her three sons are involved in some dodgy moneylending and debt collection racket. Ida gets drawn in.
A collection goes wrong and ends in an accidental death which then has to be covered up. Ida was on the scene and has to face interrogation (not seen)
Ultimately she accepts her new family and the responsibilities that go with it.
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by rogerco on Sat 29th Jan 2022 Streamed proj @ home (Subtitled)
About criminals but not a crime film
Full review
Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) was amazing from the outset. We are seeing the story from her point of view as a withdrawn (understandably owing to the death of her mum and what we inferred about her mother's life - probably alcoholic, possibly prostitute) teenager thrown into a new life with relations she barely knows since childhood (again we infer no love lost between the mum and the aunt).
The moral compass for the film is set by the family who clearly care for each other even as their relations with the outside world are pretty toxic. No moral judgement is made by the film about the business of the family - it just is.
The centre of the film is the gradual mutual acceptance of Ida and the family
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