- Actors: Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston, Pernilla August, Bjørn Floberg
- Directors: Ole Bornedal
- Writers: Ole Bornedal, Herbjørg Wassmo, Jonas Cornell
- Producers: Anne Ingvar, Arve Figenschow, Axel Helgeland, Eric Altmeyer
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Vanguard Cinema
- DVD Release Date: 24 Mar 2009
- Run Time: 125 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001MYIQ2M
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 158,582 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I saw the trailer on Youtube and it looked quite good so I got it and was to find I was very disappointed. It begins with a young girl named Dina who lets her mother burn to death by hot acid and her father cruelly rejecting her. As she grows up playing the cello and bonding with her music teacher, her bitter father demands her to marry Jacob or lose her music for good. So she argees and has a sort-of happy life marriage until tradgey looms everywhere around her while still haunted by the ghost of her mother. It really doesn't make sense, one minute she puts up a front to show how she cares and the next she becomes mad and insane. She also has qutie a few lovers, her husband, her best friend and a mysterious Russian. Maria Bonnevie is odd and very annoying, saying "I am Dina" way too many times. Gerard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston and Hans Matheson are fine as the lovers but don't have a chance to shine in this odd movie. Not really recommended if you can't handle the jumping from scene to scene and not making a lot of sense. But if you do, it's a treat.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you enjoy long period drama's. Its about a young girls' self-discovery which at times is quite funny and at others traumatic. But it is something that every woman would understand, and in the end Dina is stronger for it!
Can be quite graphic.
Can be quite graphic.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
DINA SHINES
19 Mar 2005
An epic in its own right, this movie is for those that like Babette's Feast, The Piano, My life as a Dog and other 'artsy' films. Set in a Norway that makes you want to grab the first flight out there, it's haunting story is of a cellist who lives life by her own rules from the age of 5. Not 'slow' like Babette's Feast, but with all the subtleties that we just don't get in most Hollywood movies. But not so intropective that you get lost on your own navel. Really a treat. The music, awesome, and the acting... well very good. To me, I put it up there with the likes of The English Patient, Frances, Indochine. You'll just have to get it and see for yourself. Honestly, it's one of those kind of movies ( I had the opportunity to see it in the theaters) that when it's done, you want more and you want to act on making your life more full. Cliché, but totaly carpe diem. Voila.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
"Look At Me" ~ Fjords, Fatalities And The Dark Feminine
30 Sep 2007
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Released in '02 `I Am Dina' is a beautifully filmed Brontesque styled film that is so out of the norm it appears to have created a genre unique unto itself. The constant juxtaposition of the idyllic rural lifestyle of 19th century Northern Norway and the magnificent Norwegian vistas worthy of a National Geographic travelogue are indeed a striking contrast to the dark, supernaturally tinted, psycho-sexual drama that slowly unfolds before its stunned and unprepared audience. Accompanied by a superbly crafted script and superior performances all-around one is left to wonder why such a film has lanquished in obscurity for the past five years.
Maria Bonnevie delivers a haunting and unnerving performance in the role of Dina. Her tormented, otherworldly countenance is both frightening and beautiful and the camera makes good use of her features with continual close-ups of her expressive face. If there were ever a pair of eyes that could gase into a mans soul these are the ones. Other personal favorites in the film are; Soren Saetter-Lassen as Lorch, Mads Mikkelsen as Niels, Christopher Eccleston as Leo and of course the legendary Gerard Depardieu as Jacob.
If you're in the mood for something light and romantic watch something else, however if you're looking for something somber and brooding look no further.
My Rating: -4 ½ Stars-.
Maria Bonnevie delivers a haunting and unnerving performance in the role of Dina. Her tormented, otherworldly countenance is both frightening and beautiful and the camera makes good use of her features with continual close-ups of her expressive face. If there were ever a pair of eyes that could gase into a mans soul these are the ones. Other personal favorites in the film are; Soren Saetter-Lassen as Lorch, Mads Mikkelsen as Niels, Christopher Eccleston as Leo and of course the legendary Gerard Depardieu as Jacob.
If you're in the mood for something light and romantic watch something else, however if you're looking for something somber and brooding look no further.
My Rating: -4 ½ Stars-.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Mesmerizing sound and scene
19 Dec 2005
This is a haunting and engaging story about a young girl banished to a life of self torment, an only child denied the love of her father when she accidentally causes the death of her mother. The first moments of this film are riveting, soft and serene and then quickly blood curdling, as we see the young girl playing whimsically in the 1800s in mountainous Norway, only to accidentally drown her mother in a giant vat of boiling lye on the family's estate. This all happens in the first few moments of this film- it is explosive and mesmerizing, visually spectacular, highly disturbing and set against a soundtrack of enchanting music.
The tale follows the story of Dina, the tragedy that befalls her as a child and the life of disappointment and abandonment she subsequently is doomed to follow, a life spent yearning for the love of her father and discarding all other men as playtoys. We see Dina as a young girl, and then as a young woman. She scorns her femininity in much the same way she has been scorned for causing her mother's death and her life is one of betrayal, revenge, abandonment, and adultery. This is a film not of possibility but of mind numbing reality, the confused reality of a woman damaged to the core and her need to find a permanent love that will honor and obey, and validate her.
It is beautifully filmed and cleverly edited to create a visual journey as poignant and lingering as the sad and disturbing plight of Dina. This is definitely an interesting and unique film experience, perhaps at times more engrossing for the scenery, sound track and editing than for the story line.
The tale follows the story of Dina, the tragedy that befalls her as a child and the life of disappointment and abandonment she subsequently is doomed to follow, a life spent yearning for the love of her father and discarding all other men as playtoys. We see Dina as a young girl, and then as a young woman. She scorns her femininity in much the same way she has been scorned for causing her mother's death and her life is one of betrayal, revenge, abandonment, and adultery. This is a film not of possibility but of mind numbing reality, the confused reality of a woman damaged to the core and her need to find a permanent love that will honor and obey, and validate her.
It is beautifully filmed and cleverly edited to create a visual journey as poignant and lingering as the sad and disturbing plight of Dina. This is definitely an interesting and unique film experience, perhaps at times more engrossing for the scenery, sound track and editing than for the story line.
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