Damsel
Fantasy Action Adventure English
A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
| Cast: | Millie Bobby Brown, Brooke Carter, Nick Robinson, Robin Wright, Milo Twomey, Ray Winstone, Angela Bassett, Nicole Joseph, Patrice Naiambana, Ulli Ackermann, Mens-Sana Tamakloe |
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| Director: | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo |
| Editor: | John Gilbert |
| Camera: | Larry Fong |
All Guild Reviews of "Damsel"
Millie Bobby Brown-Led Netflix Movie Is in Distress
Even a giant talking dragon—voiced by the always wonderful Shohreh Aghdashloo—can’t save this feminist fantasy survival thriller.
Damsel—the new Netflix movie with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown—is part of a fairly new strain of feminist films that wish to dismantle the stereotypes associated with fantasy films such as these. Its subversive claims—that this is not a story where a white knight rescues a damsel in distress—are made clear from the start. Yet, it has all the other time-honoured elements: an evil queen, a naïve younger sister, semi-unquestioning parents, and a prince under his mother’s thumb. (And oh, there’s also a talking dragon. We’ll get to that.) But alas, this 101-minute entirely self-serious tale—there isn’t a bone of humour in Damsel—has little to say and even less to show. I kept waiting for the film to kick in, to usher me into what it promised and wow me with its action, but that moment never arrived.
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