El reino de Dunark/ The Shamer's daughter

Vamos a empezar la semana con una dosis de ciencia-ficción. El reino de Dunark es una película danesa dirigida por Kenneth Kainz perteneciente al género fantástico.

Dina es una niña que ha heredado los poderes de su madre como escrutadora. Este poder consiste en mirar a alguien a los ojos y ver quiénes son en realidad, los secretos que ocultan. Dina es llamada al reino de Dunark cuando el heredero al trono es acusado de matar a su familia. Sin embargo, el don de la niña le permitirá ver que todo es un engaño de su hermanastro para hacerse con el trono y debe ayudar al verdadero heredero a escapar y lograr que el pueblo vuelva a favorecerle a él y no a su terrible hermano.

Es una película con una trama bastante simple, no hay grandes sorpresas, se ve a la legua qué va a ocurrir en todo momento. Se abusa demasiado de los planos de los ojos de la niña, que sí, son muy bonitos, pero esa mirada de loca a la cuarta vez, resulta cansina. No es demasiado larga la película, apenas supera la hora y media de duración, pero sinceramente, me pareció eterna.

Es un 4.

Let’s start the week with a Sci-fi dose.  Skammerens datter in Danish or The shamer’s daughter in English is a Danish movie directed by Kenneth Kainz.

Dina is a young girl who has inherited her mother’s powers as shamer. This power consists in looking at someone in the eye and seeing who they really are and their deepest and worst secrets and making them feel ashamed of them.  Dina is asked to go to the kingdom of Dunark when the heir is accused of having killed his own family. However, her gift makes her see that the heir is not guilty but his half-brother. So she should help him to escape and convince the people to support the heir again.

The plot is quite simple as you can see; there are not big surprises at all. It’s as plain as the nose on your face what is going to happen. They abuse too much of the foreground, especially with Dina’s eyes. They are bright and beautiful but eventually that mad look turns out to be wearying. The movie barely is 90 minutes long but honestly, I thought it was more than three hours long instead. I wouldn’t recommend it ever.

I’m giving it 4 points.