Kékszakállú

Kékszakállú (2016)

An unconventional portrayal of several young women witnessed in immersive yet indeterminate states: within their bodies, among their friends and lovers, and ultimately in a culture of economic and spiritual recession. Obliquely inspired by Bela Bartok’s sole opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Date of release
2016-09-07
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Drama
Director
Gastón Solnicki

Casting

Interesting facts

Kékszakállú is a 2016 Argentine drama film written and directed by Gastón Solnicki. It was screened in the Orizzonti section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. It is Solnicki's first narrative feature, after his previous documentary films Süden and Papirosen.

Production

The film is a very loose adaptation of the one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára) by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, with the libretto adapted by Béla Balázs from the folktale "Bluebeard" by 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault.

Solnicki has also cited as an influence Fritz Lang's noir-adaptation of the folktale Secret Beyond the Door... (1948), which the main character watches in the beginning of the film.

He used a 40 mm lens and direct sound to capture the ambience of the character's existence, maintaining that it was "John Ford’s favorite lens for shooting a man on a horse".

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