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Arts24 - Film Show: 'The Bride!' Puts Frankenstein in the Shade

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Jessie Buckley takes the title role in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 21st-century retelling of a 1930s silent movie, and film critic Emma Jones explains why her performance alone is worth the ticket price. We also discuss some of the criticism the film has received for its feminist stance and assess Christian Bale’s turn as the lab-made monster. Actor-director Andrea di Stefano offers a very personal story in "Il Maestro", plunging us into the Italian ten…

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Maggie Gyllenhaal returns to the direction after The Dark Daughter — a correct and profound film with which she managed to impact the audience and the critics — with The Bride!, a film that is presented as the opposite: extravagant, hyperbolic and disobedient. The film debuted in the cinemas as a box office failure and [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.

Late last year, two films that revived Universal's famous horror monsters premiered in quick succession. After Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, another iconic creature that fascinated audiences in the 1930s returned to cinema screens a few days ago. However, the title character of the provocative American film The Bride! has undergone a radical transformation.

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Aktuálně.cz broke the news in on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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