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‘Sons’ Review: Playing a Prison Guard With a Dark Secret, ‘Borgen’ Star Sidse Babett Knudsen Uncages Her Inner Animal


With 'Sons,' Gustav Möller delivers a thorny psychological thriller about a corrections officer triggered by the arrival of a specific prisoner.

It’s the kind of irony that makes for great movie characters: Eva feels she dropped the ball in raising Simon (whose entire backstory is left to the audience’s imagination), and now she pays forward the attention she should have given him, hoping that it might save some other mother’s son. Just a few minutes into the movie, a fresh batch of convicts arrives, and Eva stiffens when she sees a familiar face among them: Tall and covered in tattoos, with the angry, dead-eyed stare of someone who’s given up on the world before even experiencing it, Mikkel Iversen (Sebastian Bull) is the man who murdered her son. And should he push back at her provocations, Eva can get him locked up in solitary confinement, or even cancel his visitation privileges — which she tries to do after seeing Mikkel’s mother (Marina Bouras) on a list of upcoming guests.

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