From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award-nominee Jessie Buckley, and Academy Award-winner Christian Bale comes The Bride! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.
Speaking from the afterlife, Mary Shelley says she has a story she wanted to tell after Frankenstein, but could not owing to her death. To tell it, she possesses Ida, a woman living in 1936 Chicago, who in her trance proceeds to discuss the criminal activities of mob boss Lupino. Lupino’s henchmen, Clyde and James, discreetly kill her afterward.
Elsewhere in Chicago, a lonely Frankenstein’s monster, ‘Frank’, (Bale) asks scientist Dr Cornelia Euphronius, (five-time Oscar-nominee Annette Bening) whose work on reanimation he has read, to create a companion for him after a century of loneliness. Euphronius and Frank choose Ida’s corpse and successfully revive her, but she loses her memory in the process. Frank takes advantage of this and states that she is his bride and lost her memory in an accident, which she accepts.
Frank and the bride go to the cinema to see a movie featuring Frank’s favorite actor, Ronnie Reed, and then go dancing at a club. As they leave, two men harass the bride and Frank retaliates by killing them. He tells the bride to leave him, but she decides to live life as a runaway with him.
What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: murder, possession – a wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance.
The Bride! is screening at Palace Cinemas. palacecinemas.com.au.
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