Lots of secrets here, underlined by male friendship and love gone stale and destroyed by time, maturity and cruel biology. The film reminds me of Paul Schrader's world - where things get as bad as they possibly can before people find themselves and access their better nature. Ossy's back and is in Jimmy's face and what is worse his space - his home with his wife and kid. The warmed over remains of the friendship are played out to their inevitable conclusion - Ossy always desperately pushing, Jimmy trying to disengage. Iceland's bleak landscape contributes a lot to the atmosphere but the strength of this film is in the performances - all of them good but Coaster-Waldau and Mikkelsen particularly strong. Both Ossy and Jimmy have everything to lose, one his life and the other his family (which amounts to much the same thing). Incidentally will Jimmy be off the financial hook at the end? Ossy has paid but in this world is that enough?
Review of Wildside
