Comments In an era when innovative works are emerging and old traditions are frequently overturned by satire, the director Branagh insists on shooting such a simple story that is faithful to the original work, and his courage is commendable.
The effect is to erase any memory not just of DreamWorks' “Shrek” franchise, where Pinocchio gags were tossed around like toys, but also of Disney's own “Enchanted,” which held up the figures of legend, like the prince and the sugar- sweet maiden, as if in quotation marks. At a time when that deconstructive urge is the norm, and in an area of fiction—the fairy tale—that has been trampled by critical theory, Branagh has delivered a construction project so solid, so naïve , and so rigorously stripped of irony that it borders on the heroic. You could call it “Apocalypse Never.”
Commenting on the values of the supremacy of “Blonde Beauty” in the film
Gentlemen prefer blondes, and they marry them. Life, like the complexion of villains, isn't fair. That is why, in this latest “Cinderella,” no fewer than three brunettes—Lily James, Helena Bonham Carter, and Hayley Atwell— are kitted out with neck-ricking heaps of golden locks, while the one true blonde, Cate Blanchett, becomes a vulpine orange-red.
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