Bluebeard's Castle

Judith Moore is a successful British mystery writer who meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast. After a whirlwind romance and a honeymoon in Paris, Gavin sweeps her away to his secluded gothic castle. The dream marriage curdles fast. Gavin alternates between adoration and violence, isolating Judith from everyone she knows and rewriting her sense of reality. Biller, the filmmaker behind The Love Witch, builds the novel from gothic and romance tropes, then turns them into a portrait of coercive control and male violence that grows more terrifying as the castle walls close in.