Sons

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Sons

2024

1h 35m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man's ward -- the toughest and most violent in the prison. Here begins an unsettling psychological thriller, where Eva's sense of justice puts both her morality and future at stake.

Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

In trying to parse the morals of a woman learning to coexist with the killer of her son, Möller arrives at a bleak ending that undercuts his critique of the dehumanization inherent to so many prison systems.

Feb 25, 2024

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Leslie Felperin

The Hollywood Reporter

It’s a shame that the sloppiness of the script here — the sort of thing that could easily have been fixed in pre-production — lets down what could have been a very compelling, eminently remake-able conceit.

Feb 24, 2024

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David Ehrlich

indieWire

Unresolved and deflatingly rhetorical as it might be, Möller’s thriller maintains its bruising hold over us because it refuses to see that as a failure of his country’s prison system, as opposed to its ultimate success.

Rated: B-

Feb 23, 2024

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

Sidse Babett Knudsen is sensational in Gustav Möller’s Sons (Vogter), a far-fetched but chilling prison thriller that explores morality, punishment, justice, and rehabilitation.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 3, 2024

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Nicolás Medina

Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat

Möller's direction is outstanding, resorting to a conventional narrative, but maintaining tension and suspense throughout the film. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 7/10

Mar 26, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Unnerving psychological drama on revenge.

Rated: B+

Mar 10, 2024

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Andrei S

Robert E. Lee It is certainly not a film aimed at the Hollywood-breed morons. This says it all. The atmosfere is tense and gloomy in a minimalist setting (a prison after all). Knudsen acts superbly. Many questions remain open which is perfectly all right.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/29/24

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Aegina B

I was willing to overlook plot holes the size of Cincinnati to focus on the psychological drama of the film. The performances were excellent, and some of the scenes very subtly examined social class or dislodged expectations (like Eva's visit to another mother's home, which did both.) But overall, many details and connections -- moral, psychological, or just plain circumstantial -- remained sketchy and underwritten.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/24/24

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Gustav Möller

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Sidse Babett Knudsen

Eva

Dar Salim

Rami

Sebastian Bull Sarning

Mikkel

Marina Bouras

Helle

Thomas Voss

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Synopsis

Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man's ward -- the toughest and most violent in the prison. Here begins an unsettling psychological thriller, where Eva's sense of justice puts both her morality and future at stake.

Director: Gustav Möller
Producer: Lina Flint, Thomas Heinesen
Screenwriter: Gustav Möller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen
Production Co: Nordisk Film Production [dk]
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: Danish
Runtime: 1h 35m