& Malou Reymann

Unruly

7.1

The year is 1933, and society has very specific expectations of how young women should behave. Seventeen-year-old Maren is wild and unruly, so she is sent to the women's institution on Sprogø to adapt. The stay has the opposite effect.

Director: , Malou Reymann
Main Cast: Danica Curcic, Lene Maria Christensen, Amalie Drud Abildgaard
Soundtrack: , Lisa Montan
Cinematography: , Sverre Sørdal
Screenplay: , Malou Reymann, Sara Isabella Jønsson Vedde

Original title in Denmark is Ustyrlig.

Reviews by critics from other countries

Foreign Reviews

8 foreign reviews of Unruly (2022)

1. Aftonbladet

8 / 10

Translated from swedish: In the 1930s depiction 'The Unruly', Malou Reymann takes us to the seemingly idyllic island of Sprogø, where women who did not fall in line lost the right to their own lives and bodies.
Swedish: aftonbladet.se »
2. Göteborgs-Posten

8 / 10

Translated from swedish: The director is passionate about their subject and the film, which is set in the women's prison on Sprogø, evokes thoughts of the classic 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'.
Swedish: gp.se »
3. Sydsvenskan

8 / 10

Translated from swedish: "The unruly ones": Powerful about abuse of the "senseless"
Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »
4. SVT

8 / 10

Translated from swedish: "The Unruly" is a moving portrayal of how women are forcibly interned on a remote island.
Swedish: svt.se »
5. Västerbottenskuriren

8 / 10

Translated from swedish: Powerful about when society wants to subdue young women
Swedish: vk.se »
6. Nöjesguiden

6.6 / 10

Translated from swedish: It is a story we have seen before. There is a hero, an antagonist and so on. But there is something more that needs to be added. We owe it to the victims to tell their story but in a stronger film.
Swedish: ng.se »
7. Svenska Dagbladet

6.6 / 10

Translated from swedish: The Danish 'The Rebels' are hard to shake off
Swedish: svd.se »
8. Dagens Nyheter

6 / 10

Translated from swedish: Malou Reymans costume drama is a time machine that takes viewers to 1930s Copenhagen where ideas of racial hygiene and control of 'appropriate behavior' among women led to terrible abuses in the state's custody.
Swedish: dn.se »