Rapunzel The Final Chapter

2010, 8 minutes

A ground breaking short ballet film presenting a fusion of traditional ballet and cutting edge digital technology with Royal Ballet dancers, shot in the Royal Opera House

The Prince discovered Rapunzel in her tower, climbed up her long hair and fell in love with her. He promises to return and take her away with him. The Witch sees the Rose that the Prince gave Rapunzel and realises that Rapunzel has had a visitor and plans to escape. Furious at her betrayal, the Witch cuts off Rapunzel's hair and banishes her to wonder the wilderness. Upon the Prince's return to the save Rapunzel he encounters the Witch. She pushes him out the tower and he is blinded by thorns below. This short film tells the final chapter of the Rapunzel tale as the heroine is reunited with her recently blinded prince. We find the prince blind, having been pushed out of Rapunzel's tower by the evil Witch. He wonders blind through the wilderness until he lies down and has a vision of Rapunzel dancing in her tower. We then see Rapunzel with her hair cut off, lost in the woods. She hears the Prince call out and runs towards him. On reaching him she sees he is blind and begins to weep. Her magical tears of love make the Prince see again. The dance together and live ...'happily ever after'.

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