La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) (2011)
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as Anastasia enfant
as Anastasia à 16 ans
as Peter
as Johan
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Critic Reviews for La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty)
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Enchanting, a bedtime story told by a wickedly literate aunt with a gleam in her eye.
Sly and playful, it's a beauty.
Young Besnaïnou is so lovely that her solemn independence is a wonder to behold, and her early adventures retain an eerie and compelling charm.
Heartwarming entertainment, gorgeously rendered by cinematographer Denis Lenoir.
The pleasures of Ms. Breillat's work are its commitment and seriousness and its raw, sometimes very funny perversity: she's lets everything hang out, without apologies.
The results are impressionistic and thought-provoking, but too intellectualized to penetrate deeply.
Audience Reviews for La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty)
At last! A Catherine Breillat film that I really liked. A fairy tale, but unlike any tale you've seen, Ms Breillat seems to have melded the Sleeping Beauty story with a bit of Alice in Wonderland and made it something fresh. Condemned to sleep for a hundred years, beginning at age 6, Anastaia (Carla Besnaïnou) wanders about a phantasmagorical landscape, meeting various eccentric characters who befriend her and send her on her way as she searches for her lost brother. She awakens, at age sixteen (don't ask, it's part of the curse) and discovers true love. Lots of bizarre images and plenty of symbolism, although I'm sure I didn't catch much of it, and an interesting take on the story made this an interesting interpretation.
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In "The Sleeping Beauty," the birth of the Princess Anastasia(Carla Besnainou) would have been a happy occasion if not for the curse placed on her for her to die when she turns 16. That would not have happened if a trio of faeries(Dounia Sichov, Leslie Lipkins & Camille Chalons) had been on duty, instead of frolicing in a nearby pond. They try to make it up to her by casting a spell that will allow her to fall into an enchanted sleep from the age of 6 to 16 while living a dream life. It is there that she successfully evades an ogre(Dominique Hulin) to live with Peter(Kerian Mayan) and his mother(Anne-Lise Kedves) in the woods. "The Sleeping Beauty" is an intriguing reimagining of the venerable fairy tale. A lot of that is due to the unique sensibility of director Catherine Breillat who approaches the material from all directions, even invoking the spirit of the real Grand Duchess Anastasia who died in 1918 at the age of 17. To Breillat, girls operate in their own rarefeid worlds, separate from the dangers of the real world with little concept of what the future will bring nor who they will eventually become as they play in what feels like an eternal present.
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