The King's Daughter
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
- Released: 2022-01-21
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, Rachel Griffiths, Julie Andrews, Fan Bingbing, William Hurt, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Ireland, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Clarke, Kaya Blocksage, Kasia Kaczmarek, Tom Morton, Tiffany Hofstetter, Jessica Clarke, Virginia Bowers, Marc de Panda, Jorja Lindsay, Diane Duquesne, Jean-Baptiste Sagory
- Director: Sean McNamara
Comments
- D-nise - 13 April 2024
So Sweet and Refreshing!
This movie was so sweet and refreshing to watch! I don't know why it got such low ratings. It was a classic sweet romantic fairy tale movie that I would have expected years back - prior to forcing political views into it. This was nice, and I loved the character of the daughter. I wish we'd see more role models like her in movies today.
This movie was so sweet and refreshing to watch! I don't know why it got such low ratings. It was a classic sweet romantic fairy tale movie that I would have expected years back - prior to forcing political views into it. This was nice, and I loved the character of. - CinemaSerf - 16 June 2023
The King's Daughter
Must have been tax return time for Pierce Brosnan as he "stars" in this daft historical fantasy about Louis XIV of France and his aspirations for immortality. Egged on by the ambitious "Labarthe" (Pablo Schreiber) he believes that he can live forever if her manages to get hold of a mermaid and - well, he pinches her life force. Snag is, though, his own daughter "Mary-Josephe" (Kaya Scodelerio) is not so supportive of this scheme when she discovers this distressed sea creature and so, of course, off we head into the turbulent waters of familial discord before a whopping great power ballad at the end. William Hurt crops up here, too, and Benjamin Walker provides some eye candy - but the story is Disney-lite, there is way too much verbiage and although Brosnan tries to ham it all up, he just looks like he couldn't care less about any of it - a feeling with which I could pretty readily associate. It does look good, the costumes and Versailles look lovely but the rest of it is straight to video.
