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Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty and Hong Sang-soo’s ‘Oki’s Movie’ Heading to Venice

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 film festival.

Eric Lavallée

Published on July 19, 2010

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.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).