Maggie Gyllenhaal’s radical reinvention of Bride of Frankenstein gives the patriarchy the finger – with musical numbers.
He is a reanimated corpse, condemned to roam the world in existential misery for centuries! She is the ex-moll of a petty criminal gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You could say they were made for each other – literally, in every sense of the word. That this young woman, who is still with the patriarchy…
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