I wasn’t sure what the status was with Breillat’s take on Sleeping Beauty, but I guess I was in the right frame of thinking – as she’ll be premiering her second adaptation of a Charles Perrault fable (Bluebeard) on day two of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. In other news, Hong Sang-soo who just presented and won in Cannes for Hahaha, will present Oki’s Movie (his 11th feature and first time in Venice) – about a young helmer, his old film teacher, and the beautiful Oki who is caught between them. Sleeping Beauty opens the revamped Horizons section, while the Sang-soo film closes it.
Sleeping Beauty begins in a faraway castle the birth of a little princess named Anastasia. The old fairy Carabosse cut the umbilical cord while three young fairies emerge breathless. The fairy godmother has launched a curse: at the age of 16 years, the child will pierce the hand and die. The three fairies come to tempt fate. Instead of dying, Anastasia sleep for a hundred years.
