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'The Marsh King's Daughter' movie review: Fairly engaging psychological drama
Updated On: 04 November, 2023 01:36 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
`The Marsh King`s Daughter` movie review: Those who have read the book and enjoyed it would find this film pretty tame
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Still from The Marsh King`s Daughter
Film: The Marsh King`s Daughter
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Caren Pistorius, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham, Joey Carson
Director: Neil Burger
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 108 min.
The Marsh King’s Daughter, is an intriguing story about the complexities in family, identity, and legacy based on the book of the same name by Karen Dionne, which was a #1 international bestseller. The script has been adapted by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith from the novel. The story is entrancing and had enough potential for thrills but the treatment here doesn’t lend it much thrust in that direction. The narrative focuses much more on the effects of psychological trauma than it does on thrill seeking. So what you get is heavy emotion laden drama. What’s interesting here is the juxtaposition of the darkness of the human soul against the unsullied rawness of nature.
After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena(Daisy Ridley) is forced to face her demons when her father notoriously known as The Marsh King, Jacob Holbrook (Ben Mendelsohn) unexpectedly escapes from prison.
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