The Sleeping Beauty

Released Jul 8, 2011

1h 22m

Drama

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28 Reviews

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46%

100+ Ratings

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A young princess is stuck in a tug of war between witches struggling to find the antidote to a deadly curse.

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From France we get a genuinely dark & slightly perverse spin on a classic Fairy Tale. Here a virginal Sleeping Beauty defiantly makes her way through a mordant fairly tale world in search of a prince that will finally deflower her

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Catherine Breillat is a true genius. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY turns this fairy tale inside out and brings it in line with with Breillat's obsessive dissection of female sensuality. The film is also quite charming and never as shocking as films like ROMANCE or FAT GIRL. So for those who may not love Breillat, this is your chance to re-discover this wonderful filmmaker. Can't wait to see what she does with BEAUTY AND THE BEAST--her next film.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Didn't get good until the end when it got sexy and there was a hot French guy in the movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Breillat makes the transit between tilted fairytale and skewed psychosexual treatise, getting all of us hopelessly lost along the way.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Aesthetically impressive, beautifully written and directed, and refreshingly feminist. I would call it the Anti-Rom-Com and I mean that as an extreme compliment.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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The film starts interesting but develops into an ill-formed alteration of the fairy tale.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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David Chausse

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Leslie Lipkins

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Rated: 3.5/4

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Rated: 2/4

Nov 8, 2011

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Rated: 4/5

Oct 14, 2011

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Dustin Chang

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Breillat's second interpretation of the fairy tale trilogy (first Bluebeard and Beauty and the Beast planned), is much more playful and sumptuous (from production design to cinematography) than her previous efforts I've seen by her.

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David Nusair

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Rated: 1/4

Apr 11, 2012

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Matthew Turner

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Rated: 4/5

Nov 29, 2011

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Synopsis

A young princess is stuck in a tug of war between witches struggling to find the antidote to a deadly curse.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat, Charles Perrault
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 8, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 3, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.8K
Runtime: 1h 22m

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