Several films explore the significance of the family bond; fewer condemn it. Debut director Jeanette Nordahl’s Wildland is one of the latter category.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2024

It does speak about the issues around violence and abusive living conditions, and I commend Nordahl for telling this story. It will certainly not be for everyone, but I was left emotionally attached by the end of it and you might be as well.

| Mar 1, 2024

An absorbing and often ominous experience...

| Sep 8, 2021

Wildland doesn't offer any easy answers and the murkiness, and the morality, is where its power lies

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

There's plenty of disturbing aspects in the plot by Ingeborg Topsøe that makes the film compulsively watchable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2021

As a first feature, Wildland has much to recommend it... but the criminal family with the overbearing matriarch is a touch too familiar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2021

Kampp's performance tracks the slow immersion into a life of crime with more patience, even sweetness, than we're used to seeing.

| Aug 24, 2021

Unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and haunting. It's just as powerful as Gomorrah and Animal Kingdom.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 24, 2021

Too much left to the viewer hamstrings a cold silent thriller brimming with potential.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 20, 2021

Dark and moody, this Danish drama stirs deep emotions into a churning crime thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2021

Definitely recommended for those who seek the darker reflections in great cinema.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Aug 19, 2021

An absorbing and highly watchable psychodrama.

| Aug 19, 2021

Nordahl's direction is steady and workmanlike, perfectly complementing the small-scale story being told and highlighting the authenticity bred into its DNA.

| Aug 19, 2021

The disappointment is all the greater because of the anticipation that yields nothing in the end.

| Aug 17, 2021

A chilling portrait of twisted family loyalty, told from the perspective of a young woman caught up in grief, trauma and desperation.

| Aug 16, 2021

A tense, suspenseful piece of storytelling and a showcase for a treacherously mercurial performance from Knudsen as the fearsome matriarch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2021

The family that loan sharks together preys together.

| Original Score: B | Aug 14, 2021

This sinister Danish Scandi-noir character study, the debut film from Borgen assistant director Jeanette Nordahl, views organised crime from an unusual perspective...

| Aug 13, 2021

Director Jeanette Nordahl handles her story beautifully and at the drama's heart is Bodil, the watchful matriarch whose displeasure is to be feared.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2021