Runtime: 90 min
Language: Danish with English subtitle
Country: Denmark / Germany
Color: Color
IMDb Link:
| http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419073/ |
Unfortunately, these equal a distasteful sum total. Danish-Teuton adult-oriented animated pic by sophomore helmer Anders Morgenthaler ("Araki -- The Killing of a Japanese Photographer") tracks a minister on a distinctly un-Christian mission to snuff out exploiters of his dead porn-star sister. Pic takes a high and mighty line on the sex industry, but revels in gory violence. Paradoxically, that might make it appealing precisely to niche market of grind house fans Morgenthaler's muddled morality condemns. Theatrical prospects won't be majestic, but pic's ancillary reign should be wealthier.
Bulk of story is rendered through a pastiche of Japanimation style, with stiff limbed comic-book figures moving through more detailed but stylized CG landscapes, while live-action inserts, shot on deliberately cruddy-looking video, are deployed for expository flashbacks. The thesps voice toon characters and appear in the flesh on screen.
After his only sibling, Christina, a porn star called The Princess (Stine Fischer Christensen), dies from a drug overdose, clergyman August (Thure Lindhardt) arrives at a Danish brothel to take custody of his 5-year-old niece, Mia (Mira Hilli Moller Hallund).
August quickly realizes that Mia has been abused and become prematurely sexualized by exposure to her mother's lifestyle. Enraged, he demands Paradise Lust, the porn company that made Christina her a star and is owned by Christina's ex-b.f. Charlie (Christian Tafdrup), recall and destroy every bit of merchandise in which she appeared. Unsurprisingly, the company's executives fail to comply, and so August adopts a bloodier method of persuasion.Nastiest scene depicts August encouraging young Mia to smash Paradise Lust's managing director Preben (Tommy Kenter) in the groin with the spiky end of crow bar out of revenge for molesting her previously. Auds may begin to wonder at this point whether the church to which August belongs is perhaps a sadistic branch of the same sect that spawned Paul Bettany's self-flagellating monk in "The Da Vinci Code."
According to helmer's robustly provocative statement in pic's publicity material, Morgenthaler believes that "to enjoy a porno film one must either be very dumb or be able to abstract from the fact that one is watching real people." If that's the case, it's a curious choice to tell this anti-porn parable largely through animation, adding fantastical touches like Mia's stuffed rabbit coming to life, which makes characters seem even less like "real people."
Use of live-action footage is presumably deployed to compensate for the animation's distancing effect, but the script's clumsy incorporation of it makes the plot feel even more contrived than it already is.
The animation itself looks fairly slick, if not anywhere as eye-popping as its Asian exemplars at their best. Character design by Rune Fisker gives everyone, even little Mia, a sinister, morose look, while Fisker's backgrounds join menace with suburban blandness. Kasper Janus Rasmussen's sound design deploys silence well and interlaces neatly with Mads Brauer and Casper Clausen's tinkling score.
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Plot summary :
Due to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess, is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of. Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the dead of Christina - and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring The Princess. The mission escalates into a brutal and violent rout, where August is desperately trying to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia, why he is forced to make a fatal decision.
Awards :
Amanda Awards, Norway
2006 Nominated Best Debut Anders Morgenthaler
Flanders International Film Festival
2006 Won Youth Jury Award Anders Morgenthaler
Robert Festival
2007 Nominated Robert Best Director Anders Morgenthaler
Best Film Anders Morgenthaler (director) Sarita Christensen (producer)
Best Original Score Mads Brauer Casper Clausen
Best Sound Kasper Janus Rasmussen
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
2006 Won Best Film Silver Méliès for Best European Motion Picture Anders Morgenthaler
Official sites:
| http://www.princessmovie.com/ |
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