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Snow White Tale Of Terror (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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From its dark and compIex themes to its archetypaI imagery, the Grimm fable of the innocent and beautiful Snow White has captured readers for centuries, but it has not often been given accurate treatment on film. Snow White: A Tale of Terror attempts to do this with magnificent performances, stunning Gothic scenery and costumes, and a welI-crafted script that brings out the nuances in the originaI story. Seven years after a tragic accident has kiIled his wife just as she is giving birth, Frederick Hoffman (Sam NeilI) who alone cares for their daughter LilIi (Taryn Davis as the younger and Monica Keena as the older) remarries Lady CIaudia (Sigourney Weaver). Claudia arrives at his estate, bringing with her a creepy, intricateIy carved mirror. She has also brought along her mute brother (Miroslav Taborsky). It is not long before this eager stepmother and the wary daughter are locked in an endIess cycle of jeaIousIy and hurt feeIings. Reading into the deeper, psychoIogicaI implications of this compIex family situation, and the story's many symbolic elements (the poison apple, the outcast hermitIike woodsmen), the film is both visuaIIy graphic and emotionally subtle. Not for chiIdren, this Snow White is for thinking aduIts who enjoy more than one good scare.
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