Blue Beard

Name: Blue Beard
Genre: Fantasy
Released: March 26, 2010
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 73

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 26, 2010

Summary: Based on Charles Perrault's grisly fairytale, Bluebeard tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. Controversial director Catherine Breillat brings her personal touch to this classic tale, a favorite of good little French girls since the 1950's. PrincessBased on Charles Perrault's grisly fairytale, Bluebeard tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. Controversial director Catherine Breillat brings her personal touch to this classic tale, a favorite of good little French girls since the 1950's. Princess Marie-Catherine must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate. (Strand Releasing)… Expand

Director: Catherine Breillat

Genre(s): Fantasy

Runtime: 80 min

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Keith Uhlich

The most impressive aspect of Breillat’s feature is that it agitates like the best fairy tales, seducing us with otherworldliness before sticking the knife in and permanently inscribing the moral. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Ms. Breillat narrates the fairy tale three ways: in the period story, through the little girls and, finally, through the overall film. None are fully satisfying, but together they offer a sharp, knowing gloss on how our stories define who we were and who we become. Read full review

Sam Adams

As with Breillat’s 2007 period piece "The Last Mistress," Bluebeard is subdued and unadorned, almost plain. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Bluebeard revisits themes often found in Breillat's films -- sibling rivalry, pedophilia, gender conflict -- but it remains fresh and new. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

This offbeat but compelling take on the tale, arguably the first serial-killer yarn, emphasizes sisterly bonds but still gets to the original story's heart of mysterious darkness with impressive results. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Breillat’s film can seem at times like a far less opaque version of another story set in the 17th century about sex and power: Peter Greenaway’s “The Draughtman’s Contract.’’ Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Catherine Breillat, the French director of "Fat Girl", blends victim feminism with the threat of slasher violence in this arid ''deconstruction'' of Bluebeard, the wife killer of legend. Read full review

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EpicLadySponge

Jun 5, 2016

Blue Beard seems surprising for the first minute. How should I say this in a couple of words? Well, I just manage to love Blue Beard for just the surprising fairy tale told here.

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