A fractured fairytale is a fair way to describe UNDER THE RAINBOW, a multi layered fable interwoven with strands of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Flic opens with a dreamy blue dream sequence narrated by the dreamer, Laura, a reverie that prophesies her meeting with young composer, Sandro. This meeting is cut short at midnight as Sandro must pick up his mother from work and in his hasty exit he loses a shoe.
On her way to her auntie’s place in the woods, Laura encounters, Maxime, a womanising wolf, a music impresario keen to promote Sandro. Laura’s mother, a mirror on the wall youth fetishist is an adherent of an apple a day, and her aunt is an actress who directs children in fairy tale pageants.
Charming princes, big bad wolves, prophesies, curses are all part of this delightful reworking of folk tales with a decidedly modern twist. Tres amusent!
