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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

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. Princess Marie-...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Charles Perrault, Catherine Breillat

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

Blue Beard

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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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. Princess Marie-...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Charles Perrault, Catherine Breillat

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
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100
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.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
83
As with Breillat’s 2007 period piece "The Last Mistress," Bluebeard is subdued and unadorned, almost plain.
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80
Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard is a lucid retelling and simultaneous explanation of Charles Perrault's nastiest, most un-Disneyfiable nursery story.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
75
Bluebeard revisits themes often found in Breillat's films -- sibling rivalry, pedophilia, gender conflict -- but it remains fresh and new.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
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.
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60
Stylized, pure cinematic retelling of this ancient tale of misogyny will enchant some and bore others.
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50
It's too convoluted by half, and turns what ought to be an idiosyncratic, delightful folktale-film into a baffling personal psychodrama with a nasty sting in its tale. Still, Breillat wouldn't be Breillat if she made movies that were easy to like, or to get your head around.
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Production Company Flach Film, CB Films, ARTE, Région Limousin, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Mar 26, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.flachfilm.com/fr/films/film/barbe-bleue.html
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Awards

IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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