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Breillat’s gentle yet playful and quietly provocative retelling of Charles Perrault’s much-filmed fairytale contrasts two parallel narratives: the predominant one being the middle ages set tale about an ogreish aristocrat, who kills his wives after little more than a year, as he marries a poor local girl; with the second one being set in the present (or not too distant past), showing two young girls reading the tale to each other. Iain.Stott
