It’s the myopic “girlboss” ideology down to a tee, and it drenches every inch of this film in calculated cynicism – which might not be all that much of a surprise considering its writer-director, Kay Cannon, adapted the 2014 memoir that first originated the term into a short-lived Netflix series.Step-By Step To Download this book:Click The Button 'DOWNLOAD'Sign UP registration to access Finding Cinderella: A Novella & UNLIMITED BOOKSDOWNLOAD as many books as you like (personal use)CANCEL the membership at ANY TIME if not satisfiedJoin Over 80.000 & Happy Readers. These two determined women cross paths without ever thinking to combine forces – focused only on their own goals and desires. She has her eyes on the throne, but the path has been blocked by the existence of a male sibling. If she can land some foreign clientele at the ball and secure her own financial future, who needs solidarity or sisterhood? There’s even something telling in the way Cinderella never forms a bond with the film’s other #YesSheCan-branded enterpriser, Princess Gwen ( Our Ladies’s Tallulah Greive). Its protagonist recognises the limitations of her fairytale world – it’s verboten for women to own businesses – yet only works to better her own life. And, despite this film positioning Cinderella as an aspiring fashion designer, is there a reason its gowns look like copyright-dodging Halloween costumes based on Disney’s 2015 adaptation starring Lily James? At least Andrew Lloyd Webber and Emerald Fennell’s just-launched West End musical had the initiative to give her a punk makeover.Ĭinderella is sorely lacking in feminist credentials. That’ll be 2004’s Ella Enchanted, with Anne Hathaway. Neither is this the first reimagined Cinderella to feature Minnie Driver, a plucky, modernised heroine and the Queen track “Somebody to Love”.

He certainly didn’t come up with the idea of casting an en vogue pop star in the lead (in this case, Camila Cabello) – not when Disney’s 1997 adaptation already featured both Brandy and Whitney Houston. That is, if you consider the words “ Cinderella, but she’s a girlboss” meaty enough to be considered an original concept. PG, 115 mins.Īmazon’s new take on an old, perennial fairytale supposedly sprang forth from the imagination of one James Corden. Starring: Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Galitzine, Billy Porter, Pierce Brosnan.

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