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 ...

Powell’s expressionist-hallucinatory adaptation of Bartók features a blazing performance by Ana Raquel Satre as Bluebeard’s bride The Powell/Pressburger season at London’s BFI Southbank has given us ...

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 ...

The old French folk story about a young bride and her monstrous husband is a harrowing fable that continues to inspire powerful modern adaptations, writes Lillian Crawford. "Once upon a time… Where ...

Here's a curio. Director Catherine Breillat, who gave us the art house pornos Romance and Anatomy Of Hell, turns her attention to the French folk tale concerning a bloodthirsty nobleman with a ...

SAN SEBASTIAN — Spanish box office champ Morena Films, director Paula Ortiz and Get in the Pictures are joining forces for “Bluebeard,” Ortiz’s follow-up to “The Bride,” Spanish cinema’s biggest ...

Catherine Breillat used to be the pariah of French cinema; she even wrote an essay called The Importance of Being Hated. Controversy seems to shadow every step of her film-making career: in 1999 ...