The Sleeping Beauty
– On the heels of the mesmeric “Bluebeard” comes this wonderfully idiosyncratic, heady and erotic ..
On the heels of the mesmeric “Bluebeard” comes this wonderfully idiosyncratic, heady and erotic exploration of another classic Charles Perrault fairy tale by French cinema’s endlessly probing and brilliant provocateuse. Time-tripping with a truly precocious heroine, we follow a once-cursed six-year-old princess as she awakens a century later at the ripe old age of 16.
08 Jul 2011
French
Catherine Breillat
Hans Christian Andersen (story "The Snow Queen"), Catherine Breillat (screenplay), Charles Perrault (story)
Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kerian Mayan, David Chausse
The princess Anastasia is cursed by the witch Carabosse to die but three teenage fairies change it and the girl falls into a deep sleep for one hundred years to wake-up as a sixteen year-old teenager. Along her dream, Anastasia takes a ghost train and is adopted by a woman that lives in the woods with her son Peter that becomes her stepbrother. Soon Peter is seduced by the Snow Queen and leaves home with her. Anastasia seeks him out and travels through the kingdom of albino King and Queen that offer her a stagecoach to help her to travel. However Anastasia is attacked by gypsy bandits that kidnap her, but she befriends a gypsy girl that offers a magic animal to ride in her quest. Out of the blue, the sixteen year-old Anastasia is awaken by Peter's grandson Johan.
1 win & 1 nomination.
$28,791
Emerging Pictures