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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Omgosh I LOVED this movie so much. Maria Bonnevie WAS Dina. I'd never seen her before. Now I want to see all ger work. She was AMAZING in this one. Everyone was. I'm ready to watch it again.

Faced with the prospect of a Norwegian film in English with a plethora of international actors, I should have seen the warning signs. For one, people speaking accented English to convey the sense of a foreign language has always annoyed me ("Zose are ze fekts, mein fuhrer!").This film isn't perhaps quite that awful, but the plot appears to have been written by the committee for Silly Twists together with the Fjord Tourist Board.Equally, the style of the film is all over the place: a smörgåsbord of genre-dipping ranging from horror and ghost-tale to melodrama, costume drama, sub-Ibsenesque family saga, Bergman-lite and god knows what else.Together these result in an utterly confusing accretion of episodes that usually end in death, or haunting, or both, but no clear directorial stance on how see either.What I'm missing is any kind of moral, aesthetic or conceptual centre. We must remember that the woman upon whom the film centres is responsible for several deaths, at least one of the premeditated. But is she mad? Is she hallucinating? Is she simply dreaming? Which brings us to the central character. Personally I'm all in favour of strong female roles but the one that this film serves up is a completely anachronistic projection of modern modes of behaviour onto a time where a woman would not have been able to do what Dina does without getting shut up in a nunnery or a madhouse at the very least.Shouldn't a film that shows a woman overcome adversity and male prejudice at least show some pretty effective adversity and male prejudice? For most of this film Dina rides roughshod over men and women alike (or unshod, depending upon the stable boy in question). It's as if her initial trauma is so overwhelming that the world simply makes way for her for the rest of her life. Fat chance.Therefore I'd have to recommend any discerning viewer to give this portentous, confused example of the international co-production a miss.

I am not one of those snobs who think that the ''art movies'' are great.As every genre,there are good and bad art movies.But the art movies which I hate are those that try to simulate intellectuality at the same time they try to be commercial to attract to the ''yuppie'' spectator who wants to be cult watching an art movie.I am Dina is one of the cases I just mentioned.This film tries to be complex and intelligent when,really,it's a cheap soap-opera drama.I have to say this movie extremely bored me.On a part,I was so bored,that I slept.The performances are simply bad.The movie needed a better edition and a lot of parts are redundant.I am Dina is a pathetic and boring film which a lot of intellectual critics will say it's a great movie when they do not want to admit they were very boring.I lost 125 minutes of my life watching this crap.If you wanna see real art movies with a lot of quality watch Antonia's line or Girl with a pearl earring.

I think this is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Images are beautiful and impressive, storyline is interesting and it has a fresh female voice. Not feminist or whatever, just in the spot there is a lady with heart and soul - and also self-conscious. This is not a Hollywood movie, but has th same quality. Sees things from a different angle. Worth to see it. The first part of the movie, when we see the child-Dina is quite shocking, maybe this is the reason why -in some countries - the film is rated. The second part - when we see Dina as an adult - is more like a Gothic story. It reminded me the French movie the Brotherhood of the Wolf. Maria Bonnevie is a really beautiful and talented actress, I hope we can see her in blockbusters, too.