Bluebeard
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 22, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dominique Thomas, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti, Daphne Baiwir & Lola Creton | |
Directed by | Catherine Breillat | |
Screenwriting by | Catherine Breillat | |
Director of Photography: | Vilko Filac |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Breillat's chamber-piece of oblique eroticism is beautifully designed and acted but rendered slightly unsatisfying by a pointless second level of narrative reality.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
Catherine Breillat's move from arthouse provocations to ponderous period dramas continues with this austere, slyly experimental adaptation of Charles Perrault's grisly classic.
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Total Film
I'm starting to think that even mediocre contemporary French films, with their myriad question marks, outstrip most American fare -- and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard is hardly mediocre, though it is modest in scale.
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IFC.com
Rating: 4/5 --
What's most surprising about this adaptation is how free of violence it is: rather than embrace its potential for serial-killer bloodlust, [Breillat] has produced a witty, graceful and unusually tender reading of the story.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
Breillat's ideas owes much to Angela Carter, yet The Bloody Chamber author would surely be depressed by the lack of dynamism on display.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
Breillat has produced her funniest and most immediately pleasurable film to date.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Murky and cold, this retelling of the fairy tale has an effectively grim tone that cleverly plays with our expectations while examining some provocative themes. But it's not very engaging.
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Product Description:
Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat puts a new spin on an ancient story in this multileveled drama. In France in the mid-'50s, Catherine (Marilou Lopes-Benites) enjoys toying with her older sister, Marie-Anne (Lola Giovannetti), by reading her the story of the murderous and oft-married Bluebeard, embellishing the story with plenty of gore and scaring the girl out of her wits. As Catherine rereads the story, we're taken back to the year 1697, as Lord Bluebeard (Dominique Thomas) prepares to make Marie-Catherine (Lola Créton) his seventh wife. Marie-Catherine's youth and innocence make her an especially attractive quarry to Bluebeard, and rather than murder her right away, he decides to wait a while in order to savor the terrible joy of claiming her life. However, as Bluebeard becomes caught in a cycle of events that keep him from following through on his wife's murder, the two slowly become something like a normal couple and Marie-Catherine begins to turn the tables on her spouse. BARBE BLEUE (aka BLUEBEARD) received its world premiere at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 712267291823
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