BLUEBEARD
aka BARBE BLEU

Year: 2009
USA: Strand Releasing
UK: New Wave Films
Cast: Dominique Thomas, Lola Creton, Daphne Baïwar, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti, Farida Khelfa, Isabelle Lapouge
Director: Catherine Breillat
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 80 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains infrequent gory moments
USA Release Date: 26 March 2010 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 16 July 2010 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

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 this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife.

His last wife is the only lucky one. She escapes the fate of all those he hanged before her because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot decide whether to kill. His hesitation will be his downfall and allow the virgin to get the head of the giant.