The French folktale of Bluebeard is as famous as it is haunting. It tells the story of a young bride left alone to explore her wealthy but mysterious husband’s sprawling estate. She is given but one ...

Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard is a lucid retelling and simultaneous explanation of Charles ...

Fairy tales are not bastions of feminist literature. Given the time they were written in, this isn’t exactly surprising. Some of them really stand out as horrific stories of the dangers of being a ...

THERE are people whom one sometimes meets on the street who, when they nod a recognition, or (if they belong to the on-hatpinned sex) take off their hats, seem at the moment of greeting to open wide a ...

Tabletop role playing games often take cues from common mythology. These games give a chance for players and Game Masters to remix common stories with modern twists and explore lesser known myths more ...

With Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat—perhaps the most willful feminist provocatrice in cinema today, whose stroke in 2004 made her even more determined to keep working—slyly subverts Charles Perrault’s ...

Film Review: Bluebeard In this retelling of the tale of the wife-killing Bluebeard, drawn from Perrault's classic three-page story, there's hardly an inch of bare skin visible, let alone the erect ...