Bluebeard

France 2009, 78 mins
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Lola Créton, Marilou Lopes Benites, Dominique Thomas

Synopsis

Provocative French director Breillat (A MA SOEUR, ANATOMY OF HELL) helms this adaptation of the macabre French folktale.

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 it to her until she starts to cry.

Catherine also puts herself in the story 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.