KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ
A film by Gastón Solnicki
(Argentina, 2016, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Hailed as "an eerie high-modernist fable... mightily minimalist, and drop-dead gorgeous" (Olaf Möller, Film Comment), Kékszakállú is an beguiling portrait of several young women at the threshold of adulthood, feeling their way through various crises born of the insular comforts of upper-middle-class life.

Partly inspired by Béla Bartók’s sole opera, Bluebeard’s Castle (vivid passages are heard throughout the film), Kékszakállú radically transposes the portent of Bluebeard’s Castle into something far less recognizable: a tale of generational inertia, situated between the alternating and precisely rendered tableaux of work and relaxation in Buenos Aires and Punta del Este.

Kékszakállú was Named as one of the Best Undistributed Films of 2016 by Film Comment and IndieWire, was selected as one of Artforum's ten best films of 2016 by James Quandt, and was an official selection at the Venice, Toronto, and New York film festivals.

 
 
 
 
 
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