More about La barbe bleu

Following up on today's earlier post...

From: Breillat’s “Bluebeard” Coming to America

The U.S. rights to Catherine Breillat’s “Bluebeard” have been acquired by Strand Releasing for a spring 2010 release.

The film will also be shown at the New York Film Festival this weekend for those in the vicinity.

Bluebeard / La barbe-bleue
Catherine Breillat, 2009, France, 78m

Boudoir philosopher Catherine Breillat’s bloody chamber piece takes an outrageously deadpan approach to Charles Perrault’s grisly bedtime story about the aristocratic ogre who marries and murders a series of wives. Her Bluebeard is a middle-aged behemoth, easily four times the size of his child bride. The fairytale is acted out in a 16th century setting and explicated, often hilariously, by a contemporary pair of young sisters. The more sexually curious of the two is named Catherine and the movie’s double ending, while not exactly Perrault’s, is pure Breillat. The French director’s idiosyncratic follow-up to her sensuously carnal, literary period piece, The Last Mistress (NYFF 2007), is a perversely chaste and highly personal adaptation of Perrault’s classic fairytale.