Bluebeard

Six hours before the guillotine, Henri-Désiré Landru wrote his final letter. This 1963 historical crime drama, directed by Claude Chabrol, dissects the chilling case of the French serial killer with a detached, almost bureaucratic precision. Charles Denner portrays the infamous ‘Bluebeard’ not as a monster, but as a meticulous bourgeois businessman for whom murder was a logical transaction. The film meticulously chronicles his methodical seduction and disposal of ten women during the First World War, focusing on the cold mechanics of evil rather than its sensational horrors. A stark, unsettling portrait of banality masking profound darkness.