‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Reinvents The ‘Frankenstein’ Legacy And Gives Sensational Jessie Buckley And Christian Bale A Monster Mashup Like No Other
Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and about 20 of them zoning in on the Bride Of Frankenstein in one…
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‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip
Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It’s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l’amour fou, a renegade take-off on the "Frankenstein" mythology. And while the movie doesn’t entirely work — it lumbers along and blows fuses; it has plenty of flesh and blood but not enough storytelling spine — there’s a genuine spark of audacity to it. It’s alive in a way that Del Toro’s "Frankenstein" was not.
By Owen Gleiberman
Read full article →Maggie Gyllenhaal on How She Crafted Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale’s Looks in ‘The Bride!’
The filmmaker broke down how she put her own spin on Frankenstein and The Bride while at the film's New York premiere on Tuesday.
By Kirsten Chuba
Read full article →‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Reinvents The ‘Frankenstein’ Legacy And Gives Sensational Jessie Buckley And Christian Bale A Monster Mashup Like No Other
Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and about 20 of them zoning in on the Bride Of Frankenstein in one way or another, it is hard to imagine how you find something new to say. It would appear especially daunting after the […]
By Pete Hammond
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