Kød & Blod
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| Original title | Kød & Blod |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Jeanette Nordahl |
| script | Ingeborg Topsøe |
| production | Maria Ekerhovd, Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin, Rebecka Lafrenz, Katrin Pors, Mimmi Spång, Giulia Triolo |
| music | Puce Mary |
| camera | David Gallego |
| cut | Michael Aaglund |
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Kød & Blod is a Danish thriller by director Jeanette Nordahl based on the script by Ingeborg Topsøe . The debut film celebrated its world premiere in February 2020 at the Berlinale in the Panorama section . The regular theatrical release in Denmark is scheduled for March 12, 2020.
action
The film begins with a voiceover by the seventeen-year-old protagonist Ida. She says she was often asked questions about her family and noticed that some people's stories go wrong before they really start. The rest of the film is told as a flashback: After her mother dies in a car accident, Ida moves in with her aunt Bodil and her three grown sons, whom she hardly knows. You immediately integrate Ida into the family. Ida soon realizes that the thoroughly loving family clan is conducting criminal business under the leadership of the caring and strict matriarch . Despite moral doubts, Ida fits into the family structures and accompanies her cousins in their machinations as credit collectors.
Ida is there when her cousin David shoots a debtor in a scuffle. Ida fled to her supervisor at the youth welfare office, but could not make up her mind to betray the family. Even when the police question her, she is silent. Bodil asks Ida to cover her sons: As a minor with no previous convictions, she could only expect a mild sentence. Ida has to decide whether she wants to distance herself from the family or to join them permanently.
After a leap of a few months, the family visits Ida in the youth prison. It becomes clear that David and his pregnant friend Anna, with whom Ida had befriended, will continue to live with Bodil. Soon afterwards, David shoots himself in front of his mother.
When Anna was in labor in the hospital, she kept repeating that she did not want the child and that she would like to put it up for adoption. In the last scene you can see Anna looking at her newborn son. In the voiceover, Ida repeats the first sentences of the film: Some of the stories go wrong before they have really started.
production
The film was shot by director Jeanette Nordahl based on the script by Ingeborg Topsøe, with whom she had already worked on her short film Nylon . The cameraman was David Gallego, the music was composed by Puce Mary. Michael Aaglund was responsible for the film editing .
It play Sidse Babett Knudsen , Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Joachim Fjelstrup, Besir Zeciri, Benjamin Kitter, Henrik Vestergaard, Omar Shargawi, Elliott Crosset Hove, Carla Philip Røder, Sofie Torp, Marie Knudsen Fogh, Rikke image and Maria Esther Lemvigh.
The producers were Maria Ekerhovd, Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin, Rebecka Lafrenz, Katrin Pors, Mimmi Spång and Giulia Triolo. The production company was Snowglobe Films. The film project was supported by Danmarks Radio , Det Danske Filminstitut and FilmFyn.
The shooting lasted from May 7th to June 18th 2018. The shooting took place in Særslev , Bogense , Otterup and Søndersø on the Danish island of Fyn .
The distribution is in the hands of Bac Films and Scanbox Entertainment.
The debut film celebrated on February 21, 2020 the Berlin world premiere . It runs there in the Panorama section .
The film launch in Denmark is scheduled for March 12, 2020.
title
The Danish original title Kød & Blod (Kød og Blod) translates to meat and blood . The worldwide title of the film is Wildland , but in Canada the film is shown under Kød & Blod .
reception
Wendy Mitchell wrote for the Danish Film Institute that Kød & Blod is an atypical Mafia film that does without the usual clichés. The film also differs from other films of the genre through its female perspective and through a woman as the leader of the criminal clan.
Hollywood Reporter praised Sidse Babett Knudsen's reserved portrayal of a single mother who wants to protect her sons and at the same time sends them out as criminal henchmen. Your game makes the inner conflict between the gang leader and mother clear. The set of Helle Lygum Justesen is memorable, especially the inconspicuous suburban house of the family. The few action scenes are staged with brutal intensity. Jeanette Nordahl's direction is a bit uniform in places, but still subtly powerful. Variety also praised Knudsen's convincing performance, but noted that the overly cautious script did not give her enough opportunity to shine. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw highlighted Sandra Guldberg Kampps' low-key and disturbing portrayal of the main character. He thinks the film has what it takes to be a big hit.
Awards
The film was at the Berlinale 2020 for the award the Best First film of GWFF nominated. He was also put on the nomination list for the Teddy Award . He was also a candidate for the Panorama Audience Award .
Web links
- Kød & Blod in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kød & Blod in the database of the Danish Film Institute (Danish)
- Trailer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kød & Blod in the database of the Danish Film Institute , accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ a b Violence around the breakfast table. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ a b c Wildland (2020) - IMDb. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Jordan Mintzer: 'Wildland' ('Kød & Blod'): Film Review | Berlin 2020. In: Hollywood Reporter. February 21, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Guy Lodge, 'Wildland': Film Review. In: Variety. February 21, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Wildland review - Danish crime drama with the makings of a big hit . In: The Guardian . February 21, 2020, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 22, 2020]).
- ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ^ Teddy Award - The official queer award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .