La petite princesse

Titre original : A Little Princess

1995
G
1h 37m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,6/10

38 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

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Vanessa Chester and Liesel Matthews in La petite princesse (1995)

Home Video Trailer from Warner Home Video

Liretrailer2 min 49 s

2 vidéos

19 photos

Drama Family Fantasy

Tandis que son père s'engage dans l'armée britannique pour lutter contre les allemands durant la Première guerre mondiale, Sara est envoyée dans un internat à New York.Tandis que son père s'engage dans l'armée britannique pour lutter contre les allemands durant la Première guerre mondiale, Sara est envoyée dans un internat à New York.Tandis que son père s'engage dans l'armée britannique pour lutter contre les allemands durant la Première guerre mondiale, Sara est envoyée dans un internat à New York.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,6/10

38 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

4 279

317

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Nommé pour 2 oscars
- 3 victoires et 10 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Like the character she played, Liesel Matthews (Sara) came from a wealthy background. Matthews (whose actual name was Liesel Pritzker) is a grandchild of wealthy industrialist A. N. Pritzker and a niece of Jay Pritzker, who founded the Hyatt Hotel chain. After a family dispute and lawsuit in her early twenties, Liesel received about $500 million of her family's fortune. She subsequently became a philanthropist in, among other places, India (a country that her character Sara loved as well) and created several educational and development charities.

Gaffes
There are many latex balloons as decorations at Sara Crewe's birthday party in 1914 or 1915. However, the modern balloon that we see pictured in the film was not invented until 1931.

Citations
Miss Minchin: [after ordering the girls out and punishing Becky, to Sara] And you will perform all her chores in addition to your own without breakfast, lunch, OR dinner! It's time you learn, Sara Crewe, that real life has nothing to do with your little fantasy games. It's a cruel, nasty world out there, and it's our duty to make the best of it - not to indulge in ridiculous *dreams*, but to be productive and useful! Do you understand what I'm saying?
Sara Crewe: [short pause] Yes, ma'am.
Miss Minchin: [short pause] Good.
[she leaves]
Sara Crewe: But I don't believe in it.
[Miss Minchin stops, turns back to Sara, and goes awestruck]
Miss Minchin: Don't tell me you still fancy yourself a princess!
[laughs]
Miss Minchin: Good God, child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror!
[after a long pause]
Sara Crewe: [confidently] I am a princess.
Miss Minchin: [in disbelief] Oh!
Sara Crewe: All girls are! Even if they live in tiny old attics, even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young, they're still princesses - *all* of us! Didn't *your* father ever tell you that? Didn't he?
Miss Minchin: [furiously, in tears] If I find you up here with any of the girls again, I WILL THROW YOU OUT INTO THE STREET!

Autres versions
The digital platforms featured the 2003 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo with the 1998 fanfare while the 2003 Warner Bros. Pictures logo appears as an additional closing logo.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Crimson Tide/A Little Princess/The Perez Family/The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill/Swimming with Sharks (1995)

Bandes originales
Kindle My Heart
Written by Maggie Smith
Produced by Maggie Smith
Performed by Liesel Matthews
Courtesy of Sony Records

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Commentaire en vedette

7/10

Delightfully complex, full of tensions.

THis is a wonderful children's film full of fascinating adult tensions. The reactionary assumptions of the source material remain - the upper class are jolly nice and paternalistic; the bourgeoisie (represented by Eleanor Bron) are grasping, slave-owning monsters; India is not a massive subcontinent rife with internal and anti-colonial divisions, but a bright fantasy world of escape from reality - but the film is full of darkness unusual for such a film: apartheid, child abuse, poverty, the disruptive, harrowing effects of war, the absence of parents. In this way, the film's style, veering between fantasy and expressionistic 'realism' is impressive. The social order may be restored, but the film is full of heartening little revolutions: its ultimate message is, look HARDER.