Princess (2006/I)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Anders Morgenthaler

Writers:

Mette Heeno (writer)
Anders Morgenthaler (writer)

Release Date:

16 June 2006 (Denmark)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Drama

Plot:

Due to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest...

Plot Keywords:

Death | Priest | Grief | Porn Star | Revenge

Awards:

3 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Thure Lindhardt	...	August (voice)
Stine Fischer Christensen	...	Christina (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jens Arentzen
Rasmus Bjerg
Jiming Cai
Liv Corfixen	...	Luder i bil (voice)
Ida Dwinger	...	Mor (voice)
Mira Hilli Møller Hallund	...	Mia (voice)
Rikke Hallund
Henrik Ipsen	...	Caretaker
Tommy Kenter	...	Preben (voice)
Margrethe Koytu	...	Karen (voice)
Søren Lenander	...	Sonny (voice)
Karen Rosenberg	...	Kvinde (voice)
Christian Tafdrup	...	Charlie
Peter van Hoof	...	Various Characters (voice)
Niels Weyde	...	Betjent Andersen (voice)
Gunnar Wille

Runtime:

90 min | Canada:78 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Germany:82 min

Country:

Denmark | Germany

Language:

Danish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Denmark:15 | France:-12 | Australia:R | Australia:R (2006) | Argentina:18 | Germany:16 | UK:18 | Finland:K-18 (self-applied)

Company:

Shotgun Pictures

Trivia:

The film consists of 80% animation and 20% live action.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Smagsdommerne: (#3.16)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Hold On!

Gets progressively better as the film goes on

I knew nothing about this going in and it's not easy to tell what's going on for a good while. The plot reveals itself in a different way than most movies do and until there's a general idea of what's happening, the movie seems like an adult swim knock-off wannabe.

However, once everything is set into place, it's very gripping and stays with you until the end with a great story plus wonderful character depth and development.

The film is part animation and part grainy digital video. The digital video is used to represent a character who is no longer alive shown through home movies at random insertions. The home movies style kinda detracts from the story but it's not all bad, there's an interesting scene where a car crash from the outside is animated and from inside is shown with the grainy video.

Although, for the most part there's animation which is spectacular. I'm not sure if it's a company located outside of the country the film comes from but it's not in the exaggerated anime style. That means the animation is there but you're able to actually focus on the story. The style of animation also makes the violence pretty graphic. Understand that this is an R rated movie for a reason and some parts even in animation are tough to take in.

With proper distribution, this could become a midnight movie cult classic.