2nd Dec 2009 8:00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Catherine Breillat (A MA SOEUR) has turned to the old fairytale of tyrannous Bluebeard for her new film, focusing on the forces of curiosity that frequently feed into cautionary allegories. In a bourgeois home in the 1950s, young sisters Marie-Anne and Catherine are playing in the attic. They stumble across Bluebeard’s yarn and Catherine proceeds to read it aloud, engrossed by the horror that terrifies her older sister. In the fairytale, teenage sisters Anne and Marie-Catherine, are faced with an offer of marriage from the local Baron Barbe-bleue; a hirsute, robust figure (Dominque Thomas), famed for his barbaric temperament and packing an ominous past of missing wives. Marie-Catherine, the gutsy younger sister, defiantly takes on the challenge but when Blue beard goes away she finds it impossible to resist the temptation of exploring the forbidden room. Beautiful in its morbidly ethereal appearance, this is an intriguing new approach from the director whose provocative, progressive ideas are often shrouded by her notoriety for controversial visual content.
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