In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hanged before her because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
This hesitation will doom him, and allow the virgin to get the head of the giant.
This hesitation will doom him, and allow the virgin to get the head of the giant.
"Breillat has producd a witty, graceful and unusually tender reading of the story."
The Daily Telegraph
"Breillat has produced her funniest and most immediately pleasurable film to date”
Time Out
"Breillat’s chamber-piece of oblique eroticism is beautifully designed and acted.”
The Guardian
"As enigmatic as it is entertaining....Complex, comic and discomforting...vintage Breillat.”
Little White Lies
Details:
78 mins
RUNNING TIME
15
CERTIFICATE
2
REGION
16:9 FHA
ASPECT RATIO
French with English subtitles
LANGUAGE
Interview with Catherine Breillat
EXTRAS
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Dominique Thomas, Lola Creton, Dapné Baiwar, Marilou Lopes-Benites
Produced by: Jean-François LePetit, Sylvette Frydman
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