Film Review – The Bride

For her second feature-length directorial effort, Maggie Gyllenhaal goes from the smallness of the psychological thriller “The Lost Daughter” to the bigness of “The Bride.” Armed with a massive budget and her own screenplay, Gyllenhaal sets out to redefine 1935’s “Bride of Frankenstein” with help from the ghost of author Mary Shelley and the pumping heart of cinema, submitting a significant effort to transform the endeavor into a lawless, anarchic overview of monster love. “The Bride” goes for broke with its tone and character creations, putting Gyllenhaal to work transforming the idea into a meditation on feminism and askew empowerment. It’s hard to fault her intentions, but sitting through the picture is an exceptional endurance test at times, finding the helmer showing little interest in telling a viable story while the rest of the offering becomes an overacting convention from performers left alone to do anything they please. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com