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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three feckless fairy sisters discover this they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years. While in slumber, Anastasia comes of age through a series of vivid dreams, filled with charmi...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Catherine Breillat

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 22 m

The Sleeping Beauty

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three feckless fairy sisters discover this they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years. While in slumber, Anastasia comes of age through a series of vivid dreams, filled with charmi...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Catherine Breillat

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
8 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
8 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
8% Negative
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91
Jul 5, 2011
Following 2009's "Bluebeard," French filmmaker Catherine Breillat continues her unique and psychologically, erotically daring deconstruction of classic fairy tales and the female condition.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
85
Jul 7, 2011
Breillat manages to give us a lush, quiet spectacle with The Sleeping Beauty.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 8, 2011
This film is no fairy tale for children. Not only does it contain nudity and sex, both straight and lesbian, but it also presents childhood as a time of terror.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 7, 2011
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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 5, 2011
Though The Sleeping Beauty ends ambiguously, it remains consistent with the logic that Breillat has laid out: A girl's childhood and adolescence are often culturally sanctioned confinements. But the prisoners aren't always victims; the jails can be escaped through the courage to "go alone into the world."
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 9, 2011
The Sleeping Beauty lacks either the dramatic intensity or the sexual frankness that drew attention to her previous films "Fat Girl" and "The Last Mistress."
By Ed Schied FULL REVIEW
25
Jul 5, 2011
Judging from The Sleeping Beauty, and the previous "Bluebeard," the provocations stop with the choice of the material, as the tone and style of these films are jarringly well-behaved.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, CB Films, Flach Film
Release Date Jul 8, 2011
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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