Hosted by Alan Tracy with special guests: Jason A. Hill and Ezra Stead.
The MIDG Oscars Podcast, 2017 edition.
Oscar discussion and predictions for the show Sunday night, March 4th, on ABC.
Duration: Part 1: 1 Hour, 5 Min. / Part 2: 1 Hour, 58 Min.
By Ezra Stead
The Sleeping Beauty, France, 2010
Written and Directed by Catherine Breillat
Based on the Story “Sleeping Beauty” by Charles Perrault
If ever there was a movie I didn’t get, it is Catherine Breillat’s latest, a bizarre, meandering adaptation of the classic Charles Perrault fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty.” Perhaps it is because I have only seen one of Breillat’s previous films, the almost universally reviled but, in my opinion, underrated and fascinating Anatomy of Hell (2004), and I am therefore not entirely familiar with her sensibility, but I just couldn’t get into this one. Though it is pretty and has a distinct air of artistry about it, I found Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty to be tedious, and somehow both opaque and obvious at the same time. Of course, it didn’t help that I was constantly reminded of similar but better films by the likes of Terry Gilliam and David Lynch, not to mention Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and especially Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992). Though they share themes such as the transcendence of time and gender, one distinct advantage Potter’s film has over Breillat’s is the stellar, engaging central performance by the great Tilda Swinton, of which none of the actors in Beauty seem capable of approaching. Read More
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