Bluebeard’s Castle (Anna Biller, 2023)
Anna Biller is best known for her 2016 movie The Love Witch (pictured above), which is one of those movies I sort of hate but have also rewatched multiple times. It is beautiful and lush and the performances are great. But it is also totally humorless.1 This is a movie in which a woman uses her tampon as a teabag; you read that sentence and you think, “surely it’s a little funny.” It is not.2
But at the same time, there’s something about the movie—and Biller herself—that I appreciate and respect. She obviously an artist with a strong sensibility of her own and a strong, idiosyncratic angle that she brings to her material. So I was looking forward to the Bluebeard movie she had been working on for the past few years because—for some reason this has never come up here but it is none…
