Fresh
Breillat has produced her funniest and most immediately pleasurable film to date.
David Fear, Time Out
Bluebeard
2009 · 1h 20m · NOT RATED
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Directed by
Catherine Breillat
Overview
Anne (Daphné Baiwir) reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine (Lola Créton), the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death. Marie-Catherine dreams of marrying into money, and soon falls for wealthy divorcé Bluebeard (Dominique Thomas). Grateful for the chance at a life of comfort, Marie-Catherine marries Bluebeard — in spite of rumors that he has made a hobby of murdering his wives.
Director and cast
- Catherine Breillat Director
- Dominique Thomas as Barbe Bleue / Bluebeard
- Lola Créton as Marie-Catherine
- Daphné Baiwir as Anne
- Marilou Lopes-Benites as Catherine
- Lola Giovannetti as Marie-Anne
- Farida Khelfa as La mère supérieure
- Isabelle Lapouge as La mère
- Suzanne Foulquier as Soeur Barbe
- Laure Lapeyre as Ida
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A simple device, the parallel structure freshens and enlarges the familiar story precisely because Breillat doesn't put too much weight on it.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Rotten
Those looking for a re-interpretation of a classic fairytale will certainly find it in Bluebeard. They just won't find a very good one.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
A movie that has all the when-will-he-draw-the-scimitar suspense of Friday the 13th as made by Robert Bresson. In other words, none at all.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
All fairy tales have morals and the one in Ms. Breillat's Bluebeard is brutal, suitably bloody and, like all good retellings, both similar to and different from earlier iterations.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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