<p><strong>“This quietly surreal Freudian fable is an elegant exercise of style with a sly humorous undertow.” - <em>Screen International</em></strong></p>

<p>Recalling her own childhood antics, contentious French auteur Catherine Breillat (<em>Anatomy of Hell</em>, <em>Romance</em>) retells Charles Perrault's classic serial killer yarn.</p>

<p>Young Catherine reads out the children's story of the misogynistic ogre Bluebeard in order to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne. Incorporating herself into the plot as Bluebeard's new wife, Catherine tells the tale of the baleful but charming brute who asks that his wife obey only one rule: to never open the locked room in his house while he is away.</p>

<p>One of Breillat's most accessible films yet, <em>Bluebeard</em> nonetheless bears the unmistakable stamp of the controversial French director.</p>

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