The actress has never looked as fabulously otherworldly as she does in Disney’s new villain-centric reimagining of Sleeping Beauty , but the film doesn’t do the character any favors.
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Angelina Jolie looks amazing in Maleficent, the live action retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of its misunderstood villain. As far as appearance goes, the role of the baddest bitch in Disney's stable of villains is the one Jolie's been waiting to play her whole career.
There's always been an intimidating, otherworldly air to the actress' beauty, and these qualities have only sharpened over the years, in parallel with Jolie attaining such a rarefied level of celebrity that she, Brad Pitt, and their six children seem to move on a separate plane from the rest of humanity. Jolie hasn't even acted in a non-animated movie since 2010, when she starred in Salt and The Tourist, but her star hasn't been dimmed by her recent moves toward directing Bosnian War dramas.
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With bright contact lenses and makeup contouring the angles of her face into even sharper curves (her look was designed by the great Rick Baker of An American Werewolf in London), Jolie makes for a very compelling evil fairy, who's actually just a big softie in the inside. Freed from the need to look human or do anything other than wipe the floor with less charismatic co-stars, Jolie's able to play into serving as the supreme screen adornment she's always been, whether zipping through the air on a bird's wings or donning her finest black horn turban to menace a newborn princess.
The key shot in the film, which is the directorial debut of visual effects artist Robert Stromberg, is one in which a carefully lit Jolie tilts her chin up at the camera, all the better to highlight the near alien arcs of Maleficent's cheekbones. It's one the movie repeats several times, as is the one in which she turns her eyes to the lens in artful silhouette.
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