Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, the child of Jolie and Brad Pitt, will play young version of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty retelling
Angelina Jolie's four-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is to join her mother in the Disney fantasy Maleficent, the studio has officially confirmed.
Vivienne, whose father is Brad Pitt, will take a small role as a young version of Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty of many a fairytale. Maleficent is a retelling of the famous story from the point of view of the titular wicked fairy. In the seminal Charles Perrault version (titled The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood), she curses her victim to die after pricking her finger on a spindle, but another fairy uses her power to ensure the princess will merely sleep for a hundred years before being woken by a prince.
Jolie will play Maleficent in a live-action film which will examine the character's backstory. The movie...
Angelina Jolie's four-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is to join her mother in the Disney fantasy Maleficent, the studio has officially confirmed.
Vivienne, whose father is Brad Pitt, will take a small role as a young version of Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty of many a fairytale. Maleficent is a retelling of the famous story from the point of view of the titular wicked fairy. In the seminal Charles Perrault version (titled The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood), she curses her victim to die after pricking her finger on a spindle, but another fairy uses her power to ensure the princess will merely sleep for a hundred years before being woken by a prince.
Jolie will play Maleficent in a live-action film which will examine the character's backstory. The movie...
- 8/23/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
For many adults, The Sleeping Beauty, whether in Charles Perrault’s original telling or the Brothers Grimm’s, is the quintessential fairy tale. It has spawned countless retellings in the form of animated films, ballets, and children’s book adaptations. Now, iconoclastic director Catherine Breillat tackles the tale but on her own terms. For Breillat, The Sleeping Beauty is a doorway into the world of childhood fantasy in general as her young princess, cursed to die on her 16th birthday, travels through time and space, going on a series of adventures that underscore the fearlessness of a child’s imagination — and the adult perils that lie ahead.
The Sleeping Beauty opens today, July 8, from Strand Releasing.
Filmmaker: The Sleeping Beauty is something of a journey film, jumping from place to place, time period to time period. As a screenwriter, what were your initial ideas for this interpretation?
Breillat: The film...
The Sleeping Beauty opens today, July 8, from Strand Releasing.
Filmmaker: The Sleeping Beauty is something of a journey film, jumping from place to place, time period to time period. As a screenwriter, what were your initial ideas for this interpretation?
Breillat: The film...
- 7/8/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Provocative French filmmaker Catherine Breillat made 2009’s Bluebeard one of her best films, but she doesn’t hit the same highs with her latest fairy-tale re-do, The Sleeping Beauty. By adding riffs on The Snow Queen and other folklore to the original story, she robs The Sleeping Beauty of the directness of Bluebeard, which contrasted a simple, naturalistic retelling of Charles Perrault’s original tale with a framing device that spoke to the cruelty of stories. The new film is much looser, starting with the familiar basics of Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty, then heading off on odd tangents that ...
- 7/7/2011
- avclub.com
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The Sleeping Beauty Review [Sfiff]
Catherine Breillat has become famous as a French director who is not afraid to push the boundaries of sexuality in her films. Often she preaches precariously on the awkward time between childhood and adulthood, during those tumultuous years of sexual awakening. It shouldn't come as a surprise that her latest endeavor re-imagines the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault to, more or less, examine the mind of a young girl developing into a woman.
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Catherine Breillat has become famous as a French director who is not afraid to push the boundaries of sexuality in her films. Often she preaches precariously on the awkward time between childhood and adulthood, during those tumultuous years of sexual awakening. It shouldn't come as a surprise that her latest endeavor re-imagines the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault to, more or less, examine the mind of a young girl developing into a woman.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
- 4/25/2011
- by Blake Griffin
- We Got This Covered
Updated through 9/4.
"Following her typically idiosyncratic revision of Bluebeard, Gallic helmer Catherine Breillat fractures another fairy tale with The Sleeping Beauty," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "The story's ending may be happier this time around, but the overall result is less felicitous than its brisker, more focused predecessor. Actually something of a mashup between Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty and Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen — and featuring the erotic edges and anachronistic intellectual barbs expected of a Breillat pic — the film has provocative and compelling moments but feels too fragmented to match the helmer's best work."...
"Following her typically idiosyncratic revision of Bluebeard, Gallic helmer Catherine Breillat fractures another fairy tale with The Sleeping Beauty," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "The story's ending may be happier this time around, but the overall result is less felicitous than its brisker, more focused predecessor. Actually something of a mashup between Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty and Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen — and featuring the erotic edges and anachronistic intellectual barbs expected of a Breillat pic — the film has provocative and compelling moments but feels too fragmented to match the helmer's best work."...
- 9/4/2010
- MUBI
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