‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic Reimagining
Lead Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film as writer-director, The Bride!, opened on March 6 and rework s the Frankenstein myth in a punk-inflected, 1930s-set thriller led by Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. The film, rated R and running 2 hours 6 minutes, recasts Mary Shelley and her creation as outspoken figures who foreground consent, bodily autonomy … Read more