The movie maintained my interest until the director chose to show the actual death agonies of a beheaded animal. She cheaply and insensitively crossed the boundary between storytelling and brutality. Fictional movies of all kinds of quality rely on the aesthetics that are displayed by how creative a mind the writer and/or the director has. Cross the line to Breillat's coarseness in the scene mentioned above and this viewer bails out. As Charlotte Chandler reported in her Alfred Hitchcock biography, he said on several occasions, "It's only a movie," as evidence of Hitchcock's refusal to take anything (or anybody) too seriously. Breillat obviously considers herself beyond that kind of thought process.
Review of Bluebeard
