The Little Princess (1939)
Directed by Walter Lang
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Back on the plane home, the president is looking forward to relaxing with wife Grace (Wendy Crewson) and their 12-year-old daughter Alice ("The Little Princess" star Liesel Matthews).
So they take the president's wife (Wendy Crewson, "The Santa Clause") and daughter (Liesel Matthews, "The Little Princess") hostage.
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, a two-time Oscar nominee ( Sleepy Hollow and The Little Princess ) for his ability to light a scene and bring an emotional intensity to the setting, displays that gift again in this movie.
The story is dependably Disney — directors John Musker and Ron Clements previously helmed The Little Princess and lead screenwriter Jared Bush co-scripted Zootopia — but the characters and visuals are highly distinctive.
Gravity is quite OK too, but in the second tier of his work, along with The Little Princess and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Cuarn, who brought us the essential version of Francis Hodgson Burnett's "The Little Princess," the very sexy road movie "Y Tu Mam Tambin," and Harry Potter 3, has fashioned a futuristic drama for our times, a bleak yet oddly optimistic look at a world that is, quite literally, dying out.