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 ...

The classic murderer’s tale gets an offbeat update in thisversion from French filmmaking maverick Catherine Breillat. Two girls from the 1950s discover the novel and begin reading italoud before we ...

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 ...

THERE once lived a hideously blue-bearded man who slit the throats of his half-dozen wives, stashing their corpses in the basement of his castle one by one. So goes the legendary folk tale “Bluebeard” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curiosity kills in Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat's subtle and serene exploration of extreme sexual politics and 17th century economic realities. Accessing Charles Perrault's famous story of la ...

Bluebeard, a classic folk tale polished and refined by the 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault who performed the same treatment for Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, has long attracted ...