A young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.
Like an idiot, I came to this movie hoping that director Catherine Hardwickeâwho made her debut with the bad-girl shocker Thirteen (2003)âmight engage in a feminist interrogation of the old fairy tale, just as French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has with Blue Beard (2009) and The Sleeping Beauty (2010).