In the Mirror (2023)

A voiceover opens: the enchantress known as the Evil Queen declares that this tale belongs to her. She explains that she once wed the widowed king of the realm; he later rode off to confront a terrible invasion and never returned home. With the monarch absent, the Queen seizes control of the court and the treasury, ruling from the palace while keeping her young stepdaughter, Princess Snow White, under strict confinement within the castle walls.

A decade passes. Snow White grows into a curious, strong-willed young woman who longs to see the kingdom beyond the palace. One night she slips out of her chambers and moves through the cold corridors into the surrounding forest. As she follows a path into the trees she encounters Prince Alcott of Valencia, who is traveling through the area with his valet, Runbock. Their arrival is tense: Runbock is exhausted and complains that their provisions were stolen by a gang of bandits -- a motley crew of dwarfs. Snow White and Alcott meet and, almost immediately, feel a mutual attraction. Alcott is polite and intrigued; Snow White is both delighted by the outside world and moved by the sight of poor villagers who line the roads, gaunt and destitute, the result of heavy levies and crippling taxes enforced by the Queen in the king's absence.

Back at the palace, the Queen learns of Alcott's presence in her lands when courtier delegations announce the prince's impending arrival. She sees in him an opportunity. The royal coffers are strained after she hosts lavish entertainments for the court, and she resolves to secure Alcott's fortune by taking him as husband. She summons nobles, commissions a grand ball, and prepares to charm the prince into marriage so that his wealth can replenish the kingdom's depleted treasury.

Snow White, hearing rumors that Alcott remains in the region, intends to win his help in reclaiming what she considers rightfully her father's throne and in easing the burdens on the people. She slips into the town during the festivities and walks among the townsfolk, who confirm that the Queen's taxation has left them impoverished. Determined to act, Snow White keeps watch at the court's ball held to woo Alcott. She manages to attend the festivities in secret to speak with the prince herself. On the ballroom floor, Snow White and Alcott find one another again and dance, sharing a private connection that the Queen notices. The Queen's temper flares at the sight: she orders her chief manservant, Brighton, to seize Snow White and to carry her into the forest with explicit instructions to deliver the girl to a monstrous creature known only as the Beast.

Brighton leads Snow White toward the wooded edge, but he does not obey the Queen's command to feed her to the Beast. Instead he shows her mercy. Brighton, mindful of the girl's helplessness and ashamed at the order, tells Snow White to flee and vanish from the Beast's lair. He urges her to run and hides the depth of his remorse as he watches her disappear into the trees. Snow White flees until she collapses near the dwarfs' hideout; the Beast, meanwhile, staggers away and is not present when she reaches the thieves' lair.

The dwarfs find her and take her inside their crude shelter. They introduce themselves by name: Will Grimm, Butcher, Wolf, Napoleon, Half Pint, Grub, and Chuck. These dwarfs are rough and crafty; they have been prowling the region and have developed a reputation, among nobility and commoners alike, for stealing the Queen's tax collectors blind. Brighton, assigned to collect the new levies that the Queen planned to use for her increasingly extravagant celebrations, rides back with heavy pouches of coin. The dwarfs intercept him, overpower him, and take the money. Snow White watches as the dwarfs rob Brighton, and after the escape she quietly collects the stolen tax money from their stash. She goes into town and distributes the gold back to the starving citizens, telling them that the dwarfs are responsible for the gift. The townspeople cheer the dwarfs as heroes, seeing in their thefts a measure of justice against the Queen's rapacity.

In the palace the Queen lies to the court: she announces that Snow White is dead. Her falsehood satisfies some courtiers who prefer stability, but when word reaches Prince Alcott that Brighton has been robbed, he rides out personally to hunt down the bandits. He finds the dwarfs' hideout in the forest and discovers Snow White there; she has been trained by the dwarfs in the use of blades and in hand-to-hand combat. Alcott expects to retrieve a frightened princess but instead sees a capable fighter clearly aligned with the dwarfs' cause. Each supposes the other has betrayed the Queen or acted treacherously. Tempers flare and swords are drawn. Snow White and Alcott engage in a pitched duel among the trunks and shadows. Snow White's training gives her the advantage; she disarms, wounds, and defeats Alcott in close quarters. After the fight Alcott regroups and rides back to the palace carrying a different story: he reports to the Queen that Snow White is alive and has led the dwarfs, implicating her as a bandit and as the catalyst of the robbing of Brighton.

The Queen retreats to a peculiar chamber she calls the Mirror House to consult the being who lives in her looking glass: the Mirror Queen, an alternate, reflective presence who converses with her master. In the Mirror House the Queen asks her reflection to punish Brighton for disobedience. The Mirror Queen obliges by transforming Brighton temporarily into a cockroach to teach him humility and to mark his failure. The Queen then demands a potion that will ensure Prince Alcott's love. The Mirror Queen conjures a draught and warns that it will not be the same powerful enslavement the Queen used once on Snow White's father but gives the Queen the mixture anyway. The Queen administers the potion to Alcott; instead of sparking profound, mature love it produces an eager, slavish devotion--Alcott becomes infatuated in a puppyish, obsessive manner and pledges himself to the Queen, agreeing to marry her to ease her fiscal troubles.

Angered by Snow White's presence in the forest and by the prince's divided loyalties, the Queen unleashes the Mirror Queen's power. She coerces the Mirror Queen to attack Snow White and the dwarfs with two enormous, animated marionettes--the Mirror Queen animates their strings and sends the massive puppets rampaging through the woodland into the dwarfs' encampment. The dwarfs scramble; the giants' movements are clumsy but destructive, kicking tents aside and smashing barrels. Snow White runs beneath a marionette's shadow and, with quick reflexes and the dwarfs' help, she seizes the puppets' strings and she begins severing them with a knife. One by one she cuts the cords, disrupting the Mirror Queen's hold and sending the marionettes sprawling to the ground, their limbs lying inert. The dwarfs aid in defeating the constructs; together they topple the last puppet and recover from the attack.

The Queen sets a date for her wedding to Alcott, confident that his wealth will solve her kingdom's money problems and cement her rule. On the day the palace is decorated in banners and garlands; nobles descend in finery; the commoners peer through palace gates. The Queen arrives at the ceremony expecting parades of acclaim, but she discovers something else: Snow White and the dwarfs have organized an audacious operation and have stormed the wedding celebration. They infiltrate the hall, neutralize guards, and with speed and precision they seize Prince Alcott, spiriting him away from the altar and taking him back to their hideout in the forest. The wedding guests are outraged, and the aristocrats turn on the Queen. They point to the Queen's failure to eliminate banditry, to her false report of Snow White's death, and to the spectacle of the prince's abduction; they demand that she be removed from power for incompetence and deceit. The Queen cannot maintain her grip on the court under such public disgrace.

In the dwarfs' shelter Snow White meets Alcott face-to-face again. She knows that he was put under the effect of the Queen's potion and that his affections were not his own. Without hesitation she leans forward and presses her lips to his in a true, earnest kiss. Her kiss breaks through the potion's forced devotion; Alcott blinks, recognizes Snow White as the woman he loves, and recovers clear thought and feeling. Freed from the Queen's influence, he declares his true love for Snow White.

Enraged, the Queen dispatches the Beast--the same monster Brighton had been ordered to use--to hunt down Snow White. The Beast tracks her to the forest and captures her, biting and gripping her so that escape seems impossible. It drags her deeper into the grove toward its lair, but something in the Beast falters. The beast hesitates, stilled by an inner conflict. Snow White notices at the Beast's neck a necklace bearing a moon charm shaped like the one she has seen around the Queen's throat. Recognizing a connection, she seizes a dagger--her father's dagger, she realizes--and with a single swift action she slices the charm from the Beast's throat. The necklace snaps free. The Beast convulses and, in a flash of magic, shrinks and reorganizes into human form; the towering monster transforms into the King, Snow White's father, once thought dead. The curse that had bound him into the Beast is broken.

As the Beast's curse dissolves, the Queen's power recoils. The Queen begins to wither before the court's and forest's eyes: her face and hands age rapidly, her skin shrivels, and her hair goes white. The Mirror Queen watches from the glass and asks the Queen, in chilling calm, whether she is prepared to accept the price for using such dark magic. The Queen undergoes this swift physical decline while the Mirror Queen's voice questions her; the Queen's complexion crumples and she staggers. The scene leaves the Queen diminished and humiliated; she no longer occupies the throne with the same authority.

With the King restored and Alcott freed from the potion, the father meets his daughter and learns what has happened during his long absence. Grateful for Alcott's assistance in exposing the Queen's misrule and for Alcott's love for Snow White, the King gives his blessing for the prince to marry the princess. He declines further contact with his ex-wife; the records show that he never sees the Evil Queen again in any capacity as a ruler.

The ceremony that follows celebrates the union of Snow White and Prince Alcott. The hall fills with allies and the dwarfs stand among the guests, their faces flushed with the glow of vindication. As Snow White prepares to accept her wedding gifts, an old crone in a hooded robe appears at the edge of the festivities and approaches the bride. The figure offers Snow White a single apple as a wedding present. Snow White takes the fruit and raises it to her lips, but she pauses. She lifts the apple to inspect it and recognizes, in the crone's posture and the gleam behind the hood, the former queen. Snow White's hand moves deftly; she opens her father's dagger, cuts a thin slice from the offered apple, and lifts the slice. With the same blade she hands that slice back to the crone. The Queen, revealed as the old woman, accepts the piece of fruit in silence. She does not resist the gesture; she receives the apple and, in doing so, appears to concede her claim to the narrative. At that moment the Mirror Queen, trapped no longer in the glass but audible all the same, declares that it was Snow White's story after all.

As the final words echo, the Mirror House--the Queen's chamber of looking glass--shatters. Splinters of enchanted glass fall and vanish; the Mirror Queen's voice dies. The wedding concludes without further intrusion. Snow White, Prince Alcott, the restored King, and the seven dwarfs stand together in the palace gardens after the festivities. They move forward into their lives: the prince and princess as husband and wife, the King reunited with his daughter and with a son-in-law he trusts, and the dwarfs content in their new status as folk heroes. The last images show Snow White, Alcott, the King, and the dwarfs alive and together, their future secure, while no further trace of the Evil Queen or her mirror remains in the kingdom.

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• Look Away: Maria and Airam switch places, and Maria's situation gets worse instead of better as Airam reveals her true nature.
• Mirror Mirror: Clementianna accepts defeat, takes the apple, and the Mirror House shatters after the Mirror Queen declares that Snow White's story was always the true one; the epilogue then gives each dwarf a separate fate.
• Mirrors: Ben is trapped in the mirror world after the building collapse; he realizes he is dead in the real world when he sees that everything is reversed and his own reflection is gone.

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Monica is the film's central character, a young blonde woman played by Alba Rohrwacher who lives with her husband-caretaker Edoardo in a small house by the sea after retreating from Rome. Her memory loss is central to the story: the review describes her as suffering from a profound loss of memory, and identifies her diagnosis as Korsakoff syndrome, a neurological disorder marked by amnesia and confabulation. The film is freely inspired by Monica Vitti, but it is not presented as a biopic.

Edoardo is Monica's husband-turned-carer, played by Filippo Timi. He lives with her in the seaside house after they leave Rome, and his role is defined by caregiving as Monica's memory and sense of self deteriorate. The review also notes that he is dealing with vaguely defined financial troubles, which adds pressure to the household around Monica's condition.

The seaside house is the couple's retreat from Rome and the main domestic setting of the film. According to the review, it is a small house by the sea where Monica and Edoardo live together while her memory loss deepens. The setting matters because it frames their isolated, intimate life: Monica's confusion and Edoardo's caregiving unfold in a confined space away from the city.

Monica's Korsakoff syndrome causes memory loss and confabulation, meaning she fills gaps in memory with false or imagined details. The review says she suffers a profound loss of memory and a lack of insight, so the film's drama comes from her unstable relationship to what is real, remembered, or invented. Her condition is presented as the core plot element shaping her actions and perception of daily life.

The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, and the character is named Monica, but the review stresses that it is not a biopic. That means the connection is inspirational rather than literal: the character's identity and memory struggle are framed in conversation with Vitti's legacy, while remaining a fictional story about Monica's illness and recovery of meaning in life.

Yes -- based on the available parental guidance for the 2023 film Lonely Castle in the Mirror, it is generally not a problem for older kids, but it is not fully "family friendly" for all children because it includes some bullying, rude language, and emotionally upsetting themes.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting elements for children or sensitive viewers include:

• Bullying and verbal cruelty, including a bully calling someone "stupid" and telling them to "drop dead."
• Mild profanity, with a few uses of "d–n," "crap," and "dumb a–."
• Emotional distress and manipulative behavior involving a teen making false and harmful claims that influence adults.
• Tense or troubling moments that may be upsetting even without graphic violence, especially for younger or more sensitive viewers.

I do not see reports of graphic gore, sexual content, or heavy horror elements in the available guidance for this 2023 title.