Penelope (2006)

Certainly a unique movie, this ‘contemporary fairy tale’ features Cristina Ricci as a women born with a pig noise do to an ancient family curse. Her wealthy family attempts to find for her a fellow blue blood to marry, as that is how they interpret the cryptic cure left by a witch five generations prior. I’m going to spoil this for you now, but marrying the blue blood is not the solution to Penelope’s piggly predicament, instead she just needs to learn to love her self, and later she gets to marry non blue blood James MacAvoy (he’s in everything isn’t he). Reese Witherspoon produced this movie, and appears in a kind of odd bit part. Ultimately however I couldn’t figure out who the intended audience for this film was supposed to be, not to mention that the whole enterprise felt stretched out and all kinds awkward in its translation. Kudos for being something different, only to bad even Ricci’s enduringly played lead performance couldn’t provid sufficient direction to this rather befuddled feeling film. Held back from release for two years! Two out of Five.