Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest.
November 17, 1950 in Luxembourg
30 November 1987, Germany
4 October 1983, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
17 August 1989, Berlin, Germany
September 13, 2017
Bad men become redeemable as good people prove to be monsters. And before it's over we're left to wonder if two wrongs do make a right.
March 20, 2018
[An] assured hybrid of backwoods thriller and fantasy ...
November 10, 2017
Despite some recognizable tropes of small-town transgressions and cultish persuasions, director Govinda Van Maele proves his skill through a subtle but palpable escalation of tension.
September 18, 2017
It fascinatingly blurs the line between fantasy and reality, from the eerie intro all the way through to a surprise finale that raises goosebumps.
September 14, 2017
Unfortunately, the film's climax doesn't quite deliver the grand reveal that the rest of the film gestures towards, favouring a shaggy-dog ambivalence that gestures towards surreal ambiguity but perhaps more accurately masks creative indecision
September 08, 2017
... Gutland offers standard pulp fare set firmly on simmer, building to a twist that gets points for audacity but makes almost no sense a moment later.
September 11, 2017
[Director Govinda] Van Maele is in no rush to get to the climax and he takes a long time to begin to build suspense, but the slow burn pays off in the end.
September 14, 2017
Govinda Van Maele's full-length feature "Gutland" is a striking debut, one that slowly burns through the magnificent landscapes of rural Luxembourg with flourishes of neorealism.

