
Silent adaptation of the famous fairy tale 'Sleeping Beauty'..

Rudolf Presber
Germany

There are fairy tales that arrive as lullabies and others that invade like fever dreams; the 1921 silent Sleeping Beauty belongs to the latter phylum. Directed with narcotic precision by an unheralded collective under the nominal guidance of Victor Janson, this German production turns Charles Perrault’s courtly anecdo...

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" There are fairy tales that arrive as lullabies and others that invade like fever dreams; the 1921 silent Sleeping Beauty belongs to the latter phylum. Directed with narcotic precision by an unheralded collective under the nominal guidance of Victor Janson, this German production turns Charles Perrault’s courtly anecdote into an expressionist séance where every frame appears lacquered in soot and starlight. The first shock is the spindle: it is not the dainty silver bodkin of illustrated storyb..."


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