Bluebeard

Bluebeard

2010 · 80 min · FR · NR · 5.8 (25 votes)
Dir. Catherine Breillat · Starring Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti, Farida Khelfa · Music Stéphane Brunclair
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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.

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A haunting, dreamlike descent into a dark fairy tale. The film's atmosphere is thick with dread and unspoken secrets, exploring ambition and sisterly bonds against a backdrop of opulent decay and chilling foreboding.

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