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For decades, Disney has responded ready sharp cheekbones; from some angles, it with an array of plucky girls and women whose looks as if she had a second set of vestigial wings desires extend beyond romantic longing. Usu- riding under her skin. The exquisite attention to ally, they have adventures, and not just dreams, detail in both the makeup and costume is routine to go with their wasp waists and froufrou. in major productions like this one, of course, but Sometimes they save the day and their true the mixture of Old Hollywood glamour and con- love, which is better and more fun than wait- temporary fetishwear doesn’t just turn Malefi- ing to be saved. Yet Disney heroines, whether cent into a pleasurable spectacle, it also serves princesses or not, have almost always ended up a character who embodies both the past and as reliably paired off as if they were boarding the future. Ms. Jolie’s performance is similarly Noah’s ark. A notable exception is Queen Elsa bifurcated, with a controlled physicality that, just in “Frozen,” a very different kind of heroine. when it seems to be edging into catwalk blank- That Elsa remains single in “Frozen” has ness, springs to weird life with grotesque facial inspired some widely, wildly divergent read- contortions and spidery movements. ings of that movie, with some commentators Bruno Bettelheim, that great reader of fairy claiming her as a L.G.B.T. representation, and tales, saw “The Sleeping Beauty” as a story of others denouncing her for the same reason. sexual awakening. She wakes only when physi- It’s entirely possible that “Maleficent,” partly cally and emotionally mature enough, when because it’s narratively weak and Ms. Jolie she is ready for love and its familiar handmaid- is a powerful screen presence, will inspire its ens: sex and marriage. It’s at that point, Bet- share of warring interpretations (and dismiss- telheim writes in “The Uses of Enchantment,” als). The movie, directed by Robert Strom- “the wall of thorns suddenly turns into a wall berg from Linda Woolverton’s script, draws of big, beautiful flowers, which opens to let the on Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” and Charles prince enter.” That’s quite the metaphor, but Perrault’s version of the tale. Despite this, the for women, it has sometimes also been a curse, narrative linchpin isn’t Aurora: It’s Maleficent, including in movies, where they have tradition- who doesn’t fit the fairy tale template largely ally had to wait for a man to get them to their because of her relationships. Stefan angers her, happily ever after. There’s no denying the at- but she so gets over him and soon shifts her at- tractions of that narrative for some of us: Even tention elsewhere. Lena Dunham got swept off her feet. Mr. Stromberg, a production designer But, come on! There’s more to life and cer- making his feature directing debut, does best tainly more to women, which is something that, when he scales down, as in the lovely shots however imperfectly, “Maleficent” grapples of Maleficent walking next to a floating, un- with. I’m still not sure if the movie’s smack- conscious Aurora, an image that telegraphs down between patriarchy and matriarchy is more about their relationship than any line of the way to go, but at least nobody here is war- dialogue. The action scenes, by contrast, are bling about what she wants before hitting the visually uninteresting, borderline generic and road to self-actualization. unnecessary. There are also far too many long Consciously or not, coherently or not, shots when the digital renderings (especially “Maleficent” tells a new kind of story about those with human figures) pull you out of the how we live now, not once upon another time. story instead of keeping you immersed. But And it does so by suggesting, among other there’s so much to look at in the movie — from things, that budding girls and older women are the wittily designed creatures to the shocks not natural foes, even if that’s what fairy tales, of bilious green and purple — that the battles Hollywood and the world like to tell us. And quickly fade. (The colors are, as is a galloping while that may sound drippy, it’s exactly the race to the rescue, among the many nods to kind of hokey that, movie by movie, may finally the 1959 “Sleeping Beauty.”) make a real difference. n