Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard is a lucid retelling and simultaneous explanation of Charles ...

THERE are people whom one sometimes meets on the street who, when they nod a recognition, or (if they belong to the on-hatpinned sex) take off their hats, seem at the moment of greeting to open wide a ...

In Béla Bartók’s only opera, “Bluebeard’s Castle,” the walls sweat blood. Whether that makes for an ideal date night over Valentine’s Day weekend depends on just how romantic you consider an opera ...

The French folktale of Bluebeard is as famous as it is haunting. It tells the story of a young bride left alone to explore her wealthy but mysterious husband’s sprawling estate. She is given but one ...

At Symphony Center, Esa-Pekka Salonen recently led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s rarely performed opera Bluebeard’s Castle (as well as, on another evening, in Bartók’s popular Concerto ...

The Neon Demon’s Abbey Lee stars in Elizabeth Harvest, yet another stylish yet empty thriller, one just about as punishing as Nicolas Winding Refn’s film about the vicious fashion world. In this ...

Not just any orchestra would send its audience off to their Ubers pondering such a grisly question. But the Houston Symphony dramatically closed its 2018-19 classical season with a psychologically ...

Film Review: Bluebeard In this retelling of the tale of the wife-killing Bluebeard, drawn from Perrault's classic three-page story, there's hardly an inch of bare skin visible, let alone the erect ...