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Cinema

Lily James's Cinderella is more of a doormat than my actual doormat

Kenneth Branagh's live-action remake of the Disney classic, while beautiful, is also dreary and insipid

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

Cinderella

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Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is a Disney film based on a Disney film, so is double Disney, if you like. It is a live-action adaptation of the 1950 animated version, and an entirely faithful retelling. As such, it comes with no irony, no modern winks aimed at a modern audience and no smarty-pants updating of the smarty-pants kind.

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