‘Reedland’ Review: Outstanding Slow-Burn Thriller Announces Potentially Major New Dutch Director Sven Bresser

‘Reedland’ Review: Outstanding Slow-Burn Thriller Announces Potentially Major New Dutch Director Sven Bresser

Sven Bresser's debut 'Reedland' is a chilling drama about the effect that a child’s murder in a small rural community has on a local grandfather.

Projected as a world premiere in the framework of the "Semaine de la critique", one of the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival, Rietland plunges the spectator into a rural thriller where "the evil is sometimes hidden behind the most ordinary appearances", according to the words of his young director.

Cannes Film Festival: ‘Rietland’ by the young Dutch director Sven Bresser and the inexperienced actor Gerrit Knobbe was received with great praise this week in…