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Director: Catherine Breillat
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Catherine Breillat’s run of great movies (‘The Last Mistress’, ‘Bluebeard’) comes to a slightly depressing halt with this annoying, free-associative, Day-Glo take on Charles Perrault’s 17th Century fairytale. Co-opting some of the successful tropes from ‘Bluebeard’ (the use of precocious toddler actors principally), Breillat chooses to expound upon what might have been happening inside Sleeping Beauty’s noggin for all those years she was napping, and as such we are treated to a cycle of stand-alone episodes that, while colourfully composed and performed, offer precious little in the way of meaningful insight. Add to that some awful ‘kitsch’ special effects and a final act attempt to drag the whole sorry affair into the modern world, and you’re left with a work that feels hurried, disjointed and conceptually flawed.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online 2010 London Film Festival
Cast & crew
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kérian Mayan, David Chausse full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 82 mins
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