Barbe bleue
Bluebeard | Blaubart

Barbe bleue | Blue Beard | Blaubart by Catherine Breillat
FRA 2008, Panorama
© Flach Film - L. Bourlier

Catherine Breillat
Barbe bleue | Blue Beard | Blaubart by Catherine Breillat
FRA 2008, Panorama

Barbe bleue | Blue Beard | Blaubart by Catherine Breillat
FRA 2008, Panorama
© Flach Film - L. Bourlier
One such girl is Catherine; it gives her great pleasure to terrify the living daylights out of her elder sister Marie-Anne by reading her the infamous tale until the poor girl is so frightened she bursts into tears. Catherine derives just as much pleasure from taking part in re-enactments of the fairy-tale and eagerly slips into the role of Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard’s last wife. Although all of Bluebeard’s other wives are executed, she is the only one who escapes this fate, being the virgin princess about whose death Bluebeard prevaricates. His deliberation proves to be his downfall, and so it is the virginal Catherine who winds up in possession of the monster’s head – instead of the other way around …
In her film, LA BARBE BLEUE, Catherine Breillat has created a variation of a popular figure based on the real life Gilles de Rais, a comrade-in-arms of Joan of Arc and infamous child murderer who once inspired another man of letters, Georges Bataille, to write his own version of the story.
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