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The Blue Heart of Lady Redd — Vengeance in Technicolor— Film Review
A 40s style silent neo-noir thriller about the price of vengeance in a man’s world.
In the classic world of Film Noir, ethics and morals are as cut as dry as the films themselves are black and white.
The motives of the genre’s characters may not always be known, but their wants and needs are uncomplicated, compared to the soap operatic web of intrigue that defines storytelling today.
Nowhere is this truer than in its depiction of women, who represent one of two opposing archetypes: Femme Fatale & Damsel in Distress.
Victim or Villainess.
Or, as Claire so bluntly put it in the obscure supernatural horror flick Faust: Love of the Damned, “You’re the victim, and i’m the whore”.
Within the realm of Film Noir there is no both or and, but rather an either or relationship that sees women depicted as either a sinister persona masquerading as a virtuous woman, or as a fine, upstanding and trustworthy woman who must be rescued by the male protagonist, or else whose innocence often leads to her untimely death.
But in The Blue Heart of Lady Redd, a 40s style, silent neo-noir about an alluring vigilante who tracks down a vicious serial killer dubbed ‘The Lady Killer’, it is the female…
