Wildland

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.

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.

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.

Despite so many good actors, brilliant scenes and great performance, the movie is slow and so noisy. The story is too much planned and unrealistic! I really don't know how it was possible to make such a lazy boring movie with so brilliant and professional actors

Promising premise, and a few good actors. But the entire idea and story is lost, by a director who apparantly made a movie for herself, and not really for anyone else. Waste of time, efforts and what could have been a good story.