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Goody, a new Breillat film!


This kind of came out of the blue... so to speak.

Any information on the film? I have high expectations, considering Breillat's last effort (An Old Mistress) was arguably her best, and easily her best film since Romance.

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I have just watched Bluebeard, and it surely was the first and last movie I will have ever seen of this director. I don't know who that is and why some people here are so full of praise for her.

This movie was dreadfull, and I don't mean that in a horror way! No, it was insulting my intelligence by mixing clothing into wrong centuries, and not even trying to find a surrounding (house) with contemporary features.

When the young nun sisters walk to the nun mother's office in the beginning, you can see that hallway was absolutely built in the 20th century! Then the nun mother is about 35 years old, and she looks maurish. Huh? Did that actress pay for that role, or was she owned a favour? She did not fit physically. That is very distracting and will confuse anybody who wonders what century we might be in there.

The costumes by the others look like from about 450 years ago, but the movie text on the cover says it was 1697. No way! So off, and they didn't even try.

And how exactly was that supposed to be a feminist version? The last wife rescued by some musketeers? How did they even enter that castle? Ho did they even enter the story?

This whole end was told in like 30 seconds, and you didn't know where it came from. That is like as if you watch a James Bond movie, and in the last 30 seconds a cat walks in and speaks and tells the audience that actually the dog killed the russian spy... You would think that would be weird? Exactly, just like this piece.

Breillat is now on my negative list. I had never heard of her before, but this one ruined it forever.

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The anachronistic costumes and other props are not a problem - it's not a historical costume drama, but just a fairy tale. Poetic license is fine with something like this.

About the feminist aspect : of course it is a exceptionally feminist film. You never really get to see the musketeers who are saving the lady, but instead you get to see the lady doing everything she can to save herself. And my god, she gets to have the ogre's head on a plate - isn't this a picture of a triumph? The girl proved to be stronger than anyone else here.

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