An evil witch sets a curse upon a newborn, appearing like a
specter, unseen but powerful. The curse condemns the baby girl to death. Three
fairies appear and adapt the spell, so that the girl will prick herself with a
thorn at six, and sleep and dream for a hundred years. She will wake in a
modern world though, confused and unable to cope with the new world. She has
many adventures though, living at first on a farm with a boy who is devolves
from her friend to a teenaged, annoyed older brother. Then, a snow-covered
landscape, and tent in the middle of it. She wakes at sixteen and is penetrated
literally and figuratively by a world she doesn’t understand. Catherine
Breillat’s fittingly dreamy, weird, and melancholy story is festooned with
great color and contained settings, an it shows the destruction of a tale as
well as the destruction of a girl who was doomed from the start. The film has
many problems with pacing, but it makes up for that with its sad sensibility
that pervades through each story.
★★★/5
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