Malou Reymann
Unruly
7.1The 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.
Foreign Reviews
8 foreign reviews of Unruly (2022)
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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 »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: "The unruly ones": Powerful about abuse of the "senseless"
Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: "The Unruly" is a moving portrayal of how women are forcibly interned on a remote island.
Swedish: svt.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Powerful about when society wants to subdue young women
Swedish: vk.se »
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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 »
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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 »
Box Office
Unruly has earned a total of 49 349 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. Aftonbladet
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 »