Carefully staged but lifeless treatment of the classic French fairy tale by Charles Perreault. The film was faithful to the source...using fine locations/sets, costumes. The titular character was a strangely amorphous large man who projected nothing to the camera.
I was willing to go along with the film until the final scenes which were outrageously amateurish...did she run out of money? Time? I also didn't see the usefulness of the modern-day little girls as a framing device...the story spoke for itself and cutting sporadically to them merely distracted.
Overall a miss...not terrible but not good enough either.
4
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