The old French folk story about a young bride and her monstrous husband is a harrowing fable that continues to inspire powerful modern adaptations, writes Lillian Crawford. "Once upon a time… Where ...

Film Review: Bluebeard In this retelling of the tale of the wife-killing Bluebeard, drawn from Perrault's classic three-page story, there's hardly an inch of bare skin visible, let alone the erect ...

SAN SEBASTIAN — Spanish box office champ Morena Films, director Paula Ortiz and Get in the Pictures are joining forces for “Bluebeard,” Ortiz’s follow-up to “The Bride,” Spanish cinema’s biggest ...

Here's a curio. Director Catherine Breillat, who gave us the art house pornos Romance and Anatomy Of Hell, turns her attention to the French folk tale concerning a bloodthirsty nobleman with a ...

THERE once lived a hideously blue-bearded man who slit the throats of his half-dozen wives, stashing their corpses in the basement of his castle one by one. So goes the legendary folk tale “Bluebeard” ...

The story of Bluebeard, the monstrous aristocrat who entraps and kills one wife after another, is a very old one indeed. It almost certainly predates Charles Perrault, the 17th-century French ...