2024 · fantasy · action · adventure
Damsel
Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo1h 47m2024
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.
Our read: Damsel (2024) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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“You want a fairy-tale wedding that snaps into dragon-cave survival with a fierce princess lead.”
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