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Nov. 15: The Tournées Festival Presents La Belle Endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) by Catherine Breillat
November 15, 2011
Date: Tuesday, November 15
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: The Commons
Contact: Professor Giovanna Chesler at gchesler@mmm.edu
Catherine Breillat’s bold, feminist exploration of “female mythologies” in La Belle Endormie will complete the film series as it introduces students to an imaginative retelling of a classic tale students likely know best from Disney’s animated film, Sleeping Beauty. Comparing La Belle Endormie to various literary versions of the Sleeping Beauty tale will not only serve to reinforce students’ basic analytic skills and vocabulary—from point-of-view, plot, character, symbolism, etc.—but will also open up cross-cultural and cross-genre dialogue among the works as well as consideration of psychological, social, structural and ideological (political, gender, etc.) dimensions of fairy tales generally. A post-screening discussion will be led by Cecilia Feilla, Ph.D., assistant professor of English.
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
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