GetPapa
Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
Stoutor
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Henry Fields
The story of a girl that caused the dead of his mother when she was a child. That will mark her whole life and her relationships. She lives obsessed by death."I am Dina" has a powerful and promising beginning, but as the story advances everything turns a little bit confusing. It looks like a second rate Bronte sisters tale, and it gets much worst as the ending approaches.Not even that red-head beauty called Maria Bonnevie makes the movie a little more attractive. Boring (big time)*My rate: 4/10
Bob Taylor
A powerful story, made weaker by excessive length and too many characters. Some of the secondary characters could have been eliminated to make the plot flow more smoothly. Having said this, I was tremendously impressed by Maria Bonnevie in the title role. Her face is florid, sensual, expressive of lust, sorrow and all the other emotions in this often violent woman's life. Mads Mikkelson as the grafting, unscrupulous Niels gives the other fine performance; his suicide takes all the life out of the story.Gérard Depardieu and Christopher Eccleston were added to the cast for star power, I suppose, but they don't mix well with the other players. Eccleston's character--Zhukovsky the anarchist--is just a jumble of historical clichés we can't become involved with.
Tapio Hellman
Beautiful, intellectual, sexy and sensual Maria Bonnevik made this movie even better than I expected after seeing trailer of the movie in http://www.iamdina.com.Maria, "the Scandinavian Holly Marie Combs but with a real human soul" (of whom I had never seen before), the only Great French performing actor (since Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon have both retired) Gérard Depardieu (the best three thing in France are Renault (the car), Renault (the Cognac) and the French Fries, but I have to admit that adding Gérard to my list would be appropriate thing to do, not only because of this movie) and Christopher Eccleston (who was superb as a chief of police in a British TV series I saw years ago) led the best roles in this movie.In whole, "I am Dina" was one of the "Greater Than Life" movies I have seen. It almost made a grown-up man cry at times - but just almost ;-) Best emotional and intellectual affect since "Forrest Gump" which also had a great effect, not least because of the beautiful music of Alan Silvestri.If something could be done other way to make this perfect Scandinavian movie "even more perfect", I would have 1) changed Bjørn Floberg as her father to somebody more emotional actor or made him show some more feelings in the movie. I have not read the original book so I can not be sure whether his role was well performed or not.2) changed Hans Matheson to Ewan McGregor or alike.With these role changes this would have been a world class movie, but even "as is" it was a huge delight to see.Mads Mikkelsen was absolutely perfect in his role.Now I am eager to see more films from Ole Bornedal, this Great Danish director!
carrie_manova
I just seen this film today, and I do love it. From the ever beginning, the acting of both Dinna as a child and woman is amazing, and just great ! The story and the set are beautiful and powerful.I see a lot of movies, and I know wich stories are good and connected with real life. Dinna (in the movie) has really lived, and felt and had tried things, and she took the chance when it was there, to try out her dreams and lusts. How many of us does that ?Excellent movie, acting and just everything !!! Higly recomended !
