''Cendrillon au Far West'' (French for "Cinderella in the Far West") is a 2012 animated

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comedy film directed and written by Pascal Hérold and produced by Delacave Studios, Nexus Factory and uFilm. In English-speaking media, this movie is entitled ''Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in The West''.

Plot

In the small Western town of Felicity City,

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the

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is working for her

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stepmother, Felicity, while complaining about men's lack of manners. A train arrives with the classy

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prince, Vladmir, and the cheeky

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duchess. Felicity throws a ball in the local saloon to celebrate the coming of royalty, while plotting to get one of her two daughters married to the prince. Cinderella has become infatuated with the prince, and laments that she can't attend, as Felicity kept all attractive females out of the ball. A

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shaman sees Cinderella and helps her get into the ball by casting a spell that gives her a mask, make up, and a dress that will wear out at midnight. Cinderella, now disguised, forces her way into the ball and catches the prince's eye immediately. They begin to dance while the Prince's mother and Cinderella's stepmother enjoy a game of

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in a backroom. Felicity hustles the queen of all her earnings by pretending to not know how to play well, and eventually convinces her to bet her son's hand in marriage. By cheating she wins and the queen feels bad for what she did. The ball is attacked by a group of

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bandits seeking to capture the queen and prince. They manage to capture the queen, but the prince evades capture because Cinderella fights to protect him, losing a tooth in the process. Cinderella's spell wears off, and the prince is knocked out by Felicity, who is determined to give him to one of her daughters. The next morning, the prince manages to escape Felicity's goons by putting them to sleep by playing a violin. He runs into Cinderella, not recognizing her, and the shaman. He resolves to rescue his mother and find the woman who he danced with the night before, with only her tooth to go by. Cinderella and the shaman go with him to help him find his mother. As they go, Felicity gets her daughters and goons and hunts after them. The outlaws take the queen back to their hideout, a ship in the middle of

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, and politely threaten her to sign a will that would give their leader her inheritance. She takes advantage of the polite nature of the leader and bides her time while her son and Cinderella run from Felicity and track the outlaws. During their journey, the prince eventually realizes that Cinderella is that mystery woman from the ball. As Felicity catches up to Cinderella and crew, she pulls out a gun and tries to shoot Cinderella. The prince and shaman trick them into falling off a cliff. They find themselves in a forest dense with bizarre flora, where the bandits find them and begin to ride vultures to chase them. Ultimately they find the bandit hideout and Cinderella is captured by the bandits, while the shaman is left to die. The bandit leader, Jefe, threatens to kill the duchess' son if she doesn't sign a contract. The threat is interrupted by Felicity and her goons shooting cannon balls at their ship, ultimately causing it to begin sinking. The bandits, frightened, begin to abandon ship while the prince fights the leader. The fight is cut short when Felicity and her goons and daughters arrive and hold the captain at gunpoint to marry herself and the prince. Cinderella lights a cannon that was stuck to the captain's leg and it fires him off into the distance. The damage from the cannon fire begins to cause the ship to break into pieces and sink. Cinderella, the duchess, and the prince, make their way to one end of the ship. Felicity is stuck on a part that's sinking faster, Cinderella offers her hand to help, but Felicity refuses, and dies. The shaman appears at the last moment with vultures and saves the three protagonists. Cinderella and the prince leave the town via train, presumably to marry and live at the prince's home country.

Cast

Alexandra Lamy Alexandra Lamy (; born 14 October 1971) is a French actress. Early life Lamy was born in Villecresnes, near Paris, but grew up in Languedoc-Roussillon. When she was six months old, her parents, Michel and Michèle, moved the family to La Grand ...

as Cinderella *

Antoine de Caunes Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, comedian, actor, journalist, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and televis ...

as Prince Vladmir *

Yolande Moreau Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations. Career She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept pi� ...

as Felicity *

Michel Boujenah Michel Boujenah (born 3 November 1952) is a French-Tunisian Jewish actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter. Life and career Michel Boujenah was born on 3 November 1952 in Tunis, Tunisia. He is the brother of Paul Boujenah, a film dir ...

as Petite Fumée *

Isabelle Nanty Isabelle Nanty (; born 21 January 1962) is a French actress, film and theatre director and screenwriter. Career Nanty was a teacher for several years at the Cours Florent. She then received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising A ...

as The Grand Duchess *

Philippe Peythieu Philippe Peythieu (born 12 January 1950) is a French comedian. He specialises in dubbing, and is especially known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson in the French version of the animated series ''The Simpsons''. He has also regularly voiced ...

as Barbazul *

Véronique Augereau Véronique Augereau (born 25 May 1957) is a French actress who is notably active in Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbing. She is especially known for providing the voice of Marge Simpson in the French version of the animated series ''The Simpsons''. Sh ...

as Harmony *

Audrey Lamy Audrey Lamy (; born 19 January 1981) is a French actress and humorist. Personal life Audrey Lamy is the younger sister of Alexandra Lamy. Since 2008, Audrey has been in a relationship with Thomas Sabatier, a French entrepreneur. Filmography ...

as Melody *

Hervé Lassïnce Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''Charivius''. Anglicized ...

as Dark Lopez * Jessica Gee as Felicity *

Grant George Grant George is an American voice actor, known for voicing characters in anime dubs and video games. He was the voice of Izuru Kira from the ''Bleach'' anime series, the Warrior of Light from ''Final Fantasy'', Shinjiro Aragaki from the ''Person ...

as Bandits * Joe Thomas as Little Cloud

References

External links

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