Bluebeard

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Bluebeard

2010,

1h 20m,

Fantasy/

Mystery & Thriller

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78%

37 Reviews

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47%

500+ Ratings

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500+ Ratings

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.

Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

Jul 22, 2010

2/5

Breillat's ideas owes much to Angela Carter, yet The Bloody Chamber author would surely be depressed by the lack of dynamism on display.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Jul 15, 2010

3/5

Breillat's chamber-piece of oblique eroticism is beautifully designed and acted but rendered slightly unsatisfying by a pointless second level of narrative reality.

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Sukhdev Sandhu

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Jul 15, 2010

4/5

What's most surprising about this adaptation is how free of violence it is: rather than embrace its potential for serial-killer bloodlust, [Breillat] has produced a witty, graceful and unusually tender reading of the story.

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Caroline Golum

Screen Slate

Aug 19, 2026

Bluebeard errs on the side of tenderness, planting and poignantly nurturing the seedlings of inevitable betrayal.

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Dave Giannini

InSession Film

Feb 21, 2024

Bluebeard is yet more proof that even the most frightening, misogynistic tales can be improved with subversive feminism.

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Aug 5, 2019

3.5/4

Breillat has breathed life into an enchanting feminist fairy tale for a modern age, at once wistful and nostalgic, and eerily macabre.

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Rey S

Mar 8, 2018

Bluebeard is a terrible movie. It was suppost to be a drama and a thriller. As a thriller, it was adequate, but compared to other thrillers, it doesn't hold up. As a drama, it failed. You're supposed to care about the main character, but she is so lifeless. She can't cry, she has a terrible singing voice, and I didn't feel she would be different if she was a corpse. The first half of the movie started telling the story before the girl reading the story read the story. And speaking of that girl, the movie keeps cutting to real life for no reason but to get a laugh, and it wasn't funny most of the time, and in the end,they just kill off her sister for no reason. Anyway the rest of the cast wasn't great either. It was obvious when they tried to legthen the movie, the costumes sometimes didn't look from the time period and the dance had fingerguns. Now, it was disturbing seeing Bluebeard with a 13 year old girl as his wife, and his beard wasn't blue! Lastly, there was one scene that was weird. When the room was opened, the main character was switched with the girl reading the story. It made me go, "Oh, that girl said that horror made her laugh." But it was pointless swapping the leads. There were more scenes that were weird, but i'd suggest that you watch the movie. It's like, The Room. It's so bad that you have to watch it. i'd give it 5/10 stars because of ironic enjoyment.

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Dominique Thomas

Bluebeard

Lola Créton

Marie-Catherine

Daphné Baiwir

Anne

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Catherine Breillat
Producer: Sylvette Frydman, Jean-François Lepetit
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat, Catherine Breillat
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Flach Film
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 26, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 25, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.4K
Runtime: 1h 20m

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