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I Am Dina

2002 · 125 min

A wild, grief-haunted saga that pulls you into its heroine's fierce, destructive passion for life and death.

Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston

Tagline: This is my Story
Overview: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

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Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
madness
death
identity
obsession
Places: countryside
single country house
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Action	3
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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