I Am Dina

I Am Dina

This is my Story

Directed by Ole Bornedal

Produced by TNT Film Productions, ApolloMedia

2002125 min5.6 / 10

A haunting 19th-century character study of a traumatized girl grappling with guilt, death, and the tension between self-destruction and vitality.

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

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  • Is I Am Dina sad? Yes, very. More sad than 98% of films.

  • Is I Am Dina scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 67% of films.

  • Does I Am Dina end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

  • Is I Am Dina easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is I Am Dina violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity70

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise5

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love10

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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