Are fairy tales nothing more than tired tropes? It’s an intriguing concept that guides “White As Snow.” The film offers a blunt inspection of the standard fairy tale while skillfully updating typical constructs. Centered around the strained stepmother/stepdaughter dynamic, screenwriters Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine give the latter character a sense of freedom as well as choice. This is prevalent especially when it comes to instilling sexuality not as a device, but as a natural part of life itself. 

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Fontaine also serves as the director of the project; ‘Snow’ presents another chance for her to explore female characters with depth and perspective.

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Luxembourgian director Anne Fontaine is an icon of Francophone cinema, with a 25-year filmmaking career glutted with César Award nominations and festival debuts. Though her work spans decades and genres, it has always been female-centered, and “White As Snow,” her 16th feature to date, is no exception.

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This modernized retelling casts Claire (Lou de Laâge) as its proverbial princess, a listless orphan working for the coldly maternal Maud (Isabelle Huppert).

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