Picture Snow White on the run from her wicked witch of a stepmother-only this time, no prince shows up to rescue her, with or without a kiss, and no kindly hunts-man does, either.
She has to figure out how to rescue herself.
That's the nonstop thrill of Joe Wright's Hanna, a mash-up of family tragedy, high-tech CIA action movie, and vivid tropes from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, whose tales have less to do with fairies than with the unearned cruelties of life and death.
The movie stars a mesmerizing Saoirse Ronan louis vuitton sofia coppola bag first name is pronounced seersha) as its young heroine; Eric Bana as her father, Erik Heller, a former CIA agent; and a supremely witchy Cate Blanchett as the Teutonically named Marissa Wiegler a powerful CIA operative whose enmity for both dad and daughter is the key to the story's secrets.
Shot in four countries, Hanna is an exhilarating breakout for Wright, a British director known for his gritty realism, who made his reputation with a pair of memorable period pieces-his earthy Pride & Prejudice and the elegant Atonement, which put Ronan on the Louis Vuitton Neverfull gm world's radar.
Fast-paced and full of wonders, this is Wright's most audacious movie yet and may prove to be one of the best of the year.
Courtesy of Wright and cinematographer Al win Kiichler, Hanna instantly plunges us into another world, at once familiar, strange, and breathtakingly beautiful, with an aerial pan over vast expanses of glittering snow that leads to an ever- green forest hiding a primitive split-log cabin right out of "Hansel and Gretel.
" With her crinkly blond hair, white eye-brows, ice blue eyes, and fair complexion, Hanna looks like louis vuitton replica bags of the fauna of the northern Finnish landscape.
Like many a fairy-tale heroine, she's motherless, all that remains of Mom is a strip of smiling photo-booth portraits that Hanna pores over in private as if trying to solve the puzzle of herself.
Dressed in animal skins like her father, she's both predator and princess, as innocently savage as the snow foxes and the stag she brings down with a single arrow, only to exclaim, "I just missed your heart! " as we see her reflection in the eye of the dying stag.
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