Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bride and Movie Review
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The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein's monster.
The Bride! is a swooning, soot-streaked fever dream of a movie, the kind that feels less like a retelling and more like a resurrection. Written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, this American Gothic romance drags Mary Shelley’s myth into 1930s Chicago and lets it dance,
Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening).
Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale let their monster flags fly in The Bride!, a Frankenstein movie that amounts to pure madness.
Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, and Penélope Cruz discuss character creation, defying genre, and essential scene partners.
Before Jessie Buckley's "The Bride!", other major stars played The Bride of Frankenstein. Find out who else played the iconic character.
The Bride!is the latest attempt to resurrect the Classic Monsters once again, and there are already a ton of exciting updates about the Bride of Frankenstein remake. The original Bride of Frankenstein movie was released in 1935. It sees Dr. Frankenstein ...
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body parts doesn’t always work.