1959 · animation · family · fantasy
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi1h 15m1959
Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.
Our read: Sleeping Beauty (1959) (1959) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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How Sleeping Beauty feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want classic Disney fairy tale magic with songs, fairies and a dragon.”
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