Fairy tales are not bastions of feminist literature. Given the time they were written in, this isn’t exactly surprising. Some of them really stand out as horrific stories of the dangers of being a ...

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 ...

The classic murderer’s tale gets an offbeat update in thisversion from French filmmaking maverick Catherine Breillat. Two girls from the 1950s discover the novel and begin reading italoud before we ...

Fairy tales can get pretty rough. Bluebeard, he of the blood-soaked castle, seven locked doors and missing wives, is a case in point. When Bela Bartok addressed it operatically in 1911, the Bluebeard ...

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” ...

In “Bluebeard,” a sly rethink of the freakily morbid fairy tale, the filmmaker Catherine Breillat makes the case that once-upon-a-time stories never end. Divided into two parallel narratives one ...

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 ...

The Blue Room Theatre exposes the sexually perverted exploits of “Bluebeard,” a deranged scientist on a mysterious island, in very graphic detail. And I do mean graphic. This melodrama by Charles ...