Reviewed by rogerco,

on 29 Jan 2022
Where seen: Streamed proj @ home

About criminals but not a crime film

Review of" Wildland  

Film directed by: Jeanette Nordahl 

Film released: 2020

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 We are seeing the story from her point of view as a withdrawn (understandably owing to the death of her mum and what we inferred about her mother's life - probably alcoholic, possibly prostitute) teenager thrown into a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