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Bluebeard

Barbe Bleue

2009

Catherine Breillat

Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites ...

5.8

97

Drama With an austere setting and simple editing resources, Catherine Breillat develops a simple but loving version of Charles Perrault’s classic. One of the sisters, Catherine, likes scaring the other one, Marie-Anne, with fairy-tales, and insists on reading Bluebeard. The tale from the late seventeenth century starts unfolding on the screen. Other two sisters have fallen from financial grace. After meditating on it, the youngest agrees to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"An elegant exercise of style with a sly humorous undertow. While revealing no radically new vision, thematically or cinematically, the film is distinctive enough to keep Breillat followers happy"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"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"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"Compelling take on 'Bluebeard' gets to the original story’s heart of darkness with impressive results"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Elegant and erotic, but not especially resonant (...) [It] is beautifully designed and acted but rendered slightly unsatisfying by a pointless second level of narrative reality (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Sam Adams AV Club	"Steering clear of fairy-tale frippery throws the whole piece into unfamiliar territory, which is no doubt just how Breillat wants it."	POS

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