‘The Bride!’ review: stitched together stylishly
Just like the story from which the movie was based on, the film feels stitched together from wildly different parts. Director Maggie Gyllenhaal has created a strange yet stylish reinvention of the Frankenstein myth that explores love, loneliness, feminism, and justice, among others. In the movie, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) goes to Chicago in search […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal shares how she got the idea for ‘The Bride!’
Maggie Gyllenhaal was at a party when she had a spark of a brilliant idea for her next story. “I saw this tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein at a party and I thought, “Something about this character has captured our culture,’” says Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal. “And I then went back and watched the […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ is coming to cinemas this March
’Til death do they part. The Bride!, written, directed and produced by Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale, is a bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories. Also starring Peter Sarsgaard, with Annette Bening, Academy […]