The trailer for “Bluebeard,” Catherine Breillat’s adaptation of the famous French fairy tale gets a completely misleading trailer from Strand Releasing.
Soundtracked to beating hearts and heavy strings, with brief shots of blood and quick edits of supposedly shocking moments, the trailer is not representative of the film at all. Breillat’s “Bluebeard”, which has been disliked by various degrees from Playlist staff (this writer thought it was awful) is, if anything, completely boring. It’s more of a domestic drama than anything else and burns slowly to an obvious ending, before throwing in a twist that’s completely unearned (though it’s probably not as bad as the ending to “Remember Me”). It’s certainly not the amped up and breathless thriller Strand is trying to sell here.
See for yourself when the film opens on March 26th in limited release.
