Jorge Jarmillo and Carlo Guillot's stunning animated short
Red harkens back to some of Lotte Reiniger's shadow puppetry films.
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| Still from Lotte Reiniger's Hansel and Gretel |
Red is now in the running for my favorite version of the Little Red Riding Hood saga. The film's dark artistry elicits a sweeping rage of emotions, from delight to despair, with fierceness in between.
I, of course, love Neil Jordan's adaptation of Angela Carter's take on a Grimm story,
The Company of Wolves (1984).
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| Red wanders the forest in The Company of Wolves |
My other two favorite takes are David Slade's contemporary take on the Red Saga,
Hard Candy (2005) starring Ellen Page before she was Juno. The big bad wolf that she faces is far too real.
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| Promo image for Hard Candy |
And finally, another proto-feminist take on Red Riding Hood, but this time, Red's a misunderstood juvie played by Reese Witherspoon before she bacame super-Mom and romantic comedy's sweetheart.
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| Bad Girl Reese in Freeway |
