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Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...
Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent 2021 directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter,” has set her sights on reimagining ...
There are moments in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” that feel like they’re trying to get at something revelatory about the female condition. For the most part, unfortunately, the film is much like ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" puts a spin on a horror classic. And she found monster inspiration in a literary giant and a 1930s actress.
If you’ve been wondering whether The Bride! is a romance between two “monsters” brought to life by electricity, we have ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal says the boss of Warner Bros. forced her to cut out of "The Bride" a scene where Frankenstein licks Vomit ...
Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws ...
There have been a lot of takes on Frankenstein’s monster over the years, but Christian Bale wasn’t interested in copying anyone for The Bride! . Instead, he went back to the source material, sifted ...
The stars discuss the tonal tightrope, the creation of The Bride and Frank, how Mary Shelley got it wrong and the importance ...