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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)
Topic Started: Jun 7 2015, 05:33 PM (162 Views)
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During a question-and-answer session after a screening of Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary at the Rotterdam Film Festival, an audience member called it the worst ballet film he had ever seen. Perhaps an understandable remark, but he seems to have been fundamentally confused: Guy Maddin hadn't made a ballet film - he had made a film film. In typical Maddin manner, Dracula is an exuberant celebration of silent cinema, which just happens to be an ostensible adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Dracula.

In its narrative, Dracula is the most orthodox of the vampire movies I've picked for the cup, but it's the most stylistically unorthodox. Like all of Guy Maddin's films, its brief runtime is extraordinarily dense, and viewers might be too caught up in its stylistic bravura to pay much attention to its themes, although its highlighting of the racial undertones of Bram Stoker's novel is especially interesting.
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