Bluebeard (2017)

	Also Known As: Barbablù
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Lee Soo-youn
	Actors: Cho Jin-woong
	Country: ROK
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 23.04.2017, Teatro Nuovo, FEFF2017, Korean with English subtitle
Synopsis: Seung-hoon (Cho) works in a clinic and comes back to his appartment above a butcher. He is in a sad period in his life because he still thinks about his ex-wife. After an examination post-surgery of the butcher's father, this talks in his senility about a woman's body that is cut and brought away. Shortly later the news relate that the torso of a woman has been found in the river after ice melting. Seung-hoon starts suspecting his butcher buddy.
Review: The story of Barbe-Bleue by Charles Perrault may have been a kind of inspiration as the movie also deals with the murder of women. And it stops there. The movie deals rather with the suspicion of the butcher by the surgeon and the inner disturbances for the surgeon, who is in a weak situation due to his recent divorce.  All along the movie it is not clear to me whether his night experiences, what he finds in the fridge, what he believes to hear is reality, imagination or a dream. In this sense the directing already managed one thing. To introduce the suspicion in my feelings during the movie. Unfortunately the movie is quite slow pace and I did not notice any climax.  The fact that the stories about the found body is very far (e.g. we don't see any newspaper, any policeman, any TV news about it) makes it quite distant and the suffer of Seung-hoon is even more abstract for me.
Rating: 4 /10