Blue Beard (Barbe Bleue) French Fantasy Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Actor: Dominique Thomas, Farida Khelfa,Lola Créton,Daphné Baiwir,Marilou Lopes-Benites,Lola Giovannetti,Isabelle Lapouge
Director: Catherine Breillat
Producer: Jean-francois Lepetit, Sylvette Frydman
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release Date: March 26, 2010
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Runtime:1 hour 20 minutes
Language: French
Country:France
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Blue Beard (Barbe Bleue) English Hollywood Film.The film Directed by Catherine Breillat.
Plot
An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
Barbe Bleue French Film Synopsis:Based on Charles Perrault's grisly fairytale, "Bluebeard" tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. A classic tale, a favorite of good little French girls since the 1950s. Princess Marie-Catherine must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape the most unpleasant of fates.
Barbe Bleue France Movie Review :Director Cathérine Breillat folds two fairy tales into another, one of her own design and the classic narrative theme Barbe Bleue (King Blue-beard). I guess she deliberately renders the performances and sets artificial and hollow. This is for example clearly indicated in the tower stairs scene, where the same part of the spiral stairs is shown over and over again to give the impression of a high tower but there are distinctive parts showing it's always the same. As if this wasn't already clear enough, at one point she needlessly lets the image flip to show its cut. I interpret this as a cryptic reflection of narrative tradition where she blends the image of the girl devouring King Blue beard into a new image of the girl's courage and fearless endeavor. Hence Lola Creton is the only one who seems to be allowed to give a glowing performance and so she does.
A difficult film, but worth a watch if anything of the above made sense to you or you know and like Breillat's unconventional work.
Infused with a sumptuous elegance, Catherine Breillat's eerie retelling of the Charles Perrault fairytale Bluebeard is very sensual and highly stylized while adhering to an almost literary interpretation of the story. Shown at the Vancouver Film Festival, the film operates on parallel levels, both involving two sisters. In the first story, two young sisters play in the attic of their home in France in the present time. Catherine, who according to Breillat's autobiographical material, represents the director, plays power games with her older but more withdrawn sister Marie-Anne by tormenting her with readings of the classic horror story "Bluebeard".
While young Catherine is reading the story, the drama plays out on the screen in a setting that looks like the 16th century. Another pair of sisters Anne (Daphne Baiwir) and Marie-Catherine (Lola Créton) (note the similarity in names) receive sad news at a convent from a coldly unfeeling Mother Superior that their father was killed while trying to save a little girl. Without means to continue at their private school, the girls are unceremoniously thrown out. On the way home, they pass Bluebeard's Castle and comment on the local aristocrat who, rumor has it, married many wives who strangely disappeared.
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