Bearded in his own den

Here's Dominique Thomas and Ella Creton in Catherine Breillat's imaginative, provocative, shocking, and hilarious adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale, Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard). I caught it at the New York Film Festival and think it a stone masterpiece, a film Breillat was absolutely born to make. (I remember the producer Jeremy Thomas once asking me, "Don't you want to see David Cronenberg make a film of Ballard's Crash?" and replying, "Oh yes, please;" I can imagine giving a similar response had someone asked me about wanting to see a Breillat Bluebeard. Sometimes dreams DO come true!) The picture's being released in the U.S. by Strand some time next year, the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned. I spoke with Breillat, always one of my favorite interview subjects, about the film when she was in New York earlier this month, and she was fascinating and fierce as always. Here is the interview, courtesy of The Auteurs'.