Shot as a story within a story, two young girls read the gruesome fairy tale "Bluebeard" in the 1950's while the audience watches the action unfold in the 17th century.
This is definitely a "WTF" movie. It's very short, not even an hour and a half, and it's beautifully-filmed, but I really did not understand the purpose of the film. The story is very straightforward, it's "Bluebeard," no question about it, but the last two minutes or so completely blow the movie into the bizarre and you're left feeling devastated and utterly confused. I have a feeling the director tried to be too....vague, maybe? Not necessarily artsy...I don't even know what was going on in her mind. I really liked Bluebeard and the young girl as a couple in terms of filming though, her smallness was exaggerated by large furniture and the giant who played Bluebeard who happens to wear like 100 pounds of clothing. There's a brilliant scene where they're eating breakfast side by side and he has this huge ostrich egg and she's eating these tiny quail eggs. He's very gentle with her, they barely touch in the movie, and he seems so devastated when he knows he has to kill her, I question the very foundation of the story and WHY he has to do it. In the original fairy tale, it's pretty clear he's just crazy, he gets really mad and drags her by the hair, but in this, he seems to rational and like he really loves her, it makes me think there's more going on than what the simple story portrays. Again, I feel this confusion is a shortcoming of the film itself.
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