The Marsh King’s Daughter | Review

Source: Hollywood Reporter – Film

There are certain lines of cinematic dialogue that, as soon as you hear them, you realize you’re going to hear again later in the movie. In the opening scene of Neil Burger’s film adaptation of Karen Dionne’s 2017 novel The Marsh King’s Daughter, we see a father guiding his young daughter through the woods and instructing her how to hunt. He’s gentle and nurturing, but also unflinching in not shielding her from the harsh realities of nature. And he delivers this telling edict: “You must always protect your family.”

The macho-sounding line is delivered not by Clint Eastwood or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but rather Ben Mendelsohn as Jacob, whom we later learn is known as the Marsh King, so named because he lives off the grid in the remote marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (any resemblance to the Hans Christian Andersen tale is purely coincidental)…

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