Tributes / The Bride! / France, USA 2026
Fierce, emancipated, bold, intoxicating, subversive, sensual, rebellious! A description of The Bride’s main protagonist Mary/Ida/Penelope, and of the film itself – a fresh reinterpretation of one of the most famous stories of all time, that of Frankenstein and his bride. With her second stint behind the camera, Maggie Gyllenhaal firmly establishes herself as a producer, director, and screenwriter alongside her remarkable career as an actor. Set in 1930s Chicago, her provocative dark romance is a stylized ride in which monsters and torrents of words come to life in order to launch an assault on the patriarchy and express a sentiment that generations of women have always hesitated to say aloud: “I would prefer not to.”
Natalia Kozáková
126 min / DCP
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal
/ Screenplay Maggie Gyllenhaal
/ Dir. of Photography Lawrence Sher
/ Music Hildur Guðnadóttir
/ Sound Damian Volpe
/ Editor Dylan Tichenor
/ Art Director Nithya Shrinivasan
/ Producer Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
/ Production First Love Films, In the Current Company, Warner Bros. Pictures
/ Coproduction Domain Entertainment
/ Cast Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Magaro, Matthew Maher, Jeannie Berlin, Zlatko Buric
/ Distributor Vertical Entertainment
Maggie Gyllenhaal. Filmography: The Lost Daughter (2021), The Bride! (2026).
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