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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Directed by Neil Burger
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Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous ‘Marsh King’, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
Rated R | Length 109 minutes
Actors
Daisy Ridley | Ben Mendelsohn | Garrett Hedlund | Caren Pistorius | Brooklynn Prince | Joey Carson | Yanna McIntosh | Gil Birmingham | Joshua Peace | Pamela MacDonald | Dan Abramovici | Sophia Walker | Ash Catherwood | Toby Proctor | Blair Johannes | Cotton Mather | Lee Villeneuve | Thomas Kane
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/07/2023 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Soft 7 out of 10 for this drama crime thriller cut right out of real headlines and the perfect off the shelf readymade story for Lifetime Channel or Netflix, these days. There’s something about this, the way it’s shot mostly, that looks like a streaming movie, too. Lots of closeups and POV camera angles.
But I like Daisy and Ben and Brooklyn and the unsettling nature of how this is presented. It does leave questions about a few things but I can let most of that slide. I saw that Daisy had a dialect coach in the credits; she just needs to not take roles that require her to any kind of accent but she struggled with this one. You could see it in her face that she was concentrating on how to deliver her lines with that accent. Didn’t work for me.
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