Blanche Comme Neige

My wife and I enjoyed this modern and artistic retelling of the classic fairy tale. Lou de Laâge is vivacious, young and beautiful as Snow White. Isabelle Huppert was believable as the wicked step mother. The dwarfs were sexual conquests for Snow. Great idea. Would love to see more from these writers and director Anne Fontaine: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, etc.

A nice girl is jogging on a city bridge in daylight when a car stops in front of her & someone gets out & grabs her & stuffs her in their trunk. Dumb & not believable; furthering the far fetched she is driven to some mysterious remote area where she escapes & as always despite being a good runner while quickly escaping through remote woods the abductor still finds her & then confusingly & unexplained someone shoots the abductor & then somehow takes the escaped girl into a remote house where for some unexplained reason she suddenly wants to stay. Later, gets tossed over a cliff from a moving car, but ends up in a hospital with no marks & still perfect makeup. Dead or alive who cares!

What a disappointment. I truly wanted to like this going into this knowing Isabelle Huppert was playing a modern dark comedy version of the evil queen. A revisionist Snow White as an dark comedy with erotic elements? sounds perfect.

But the end product is terrible, not funny at all and instead, trite,predictable and just a jumble of post feminist cliches. The feminist would have been inherent in the plot there was need need to make it so hamhanded. In fact it ends up being exploitative of women. Hubbert and Poelvoorde are wasted, my guess embarrassed in the end to even be in this mess.

Modern and revisited version of the German tale set in shape by the Grimm brothers in 1812 and popularized all over the world by Walt Disney in 1937. It's funny, inventive, subversive, free and mature. Although the movie slightly flounders during the first thirty minutes, Anne Fontaine dares! The wicked witch imbued with her person is replaced by an unscrupulous woman disappointed by her unfaithful husband, and the seven dwarves are partially replaced by ...guess what!... sex friends, the movie openly flirting with eroticism. Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Macaigne and Benoît Poelvoorde are awesome.

Great movie. First what I've said, after I finished watchig, was: "It's like a choleretic agent, but for a someone's soul".