Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
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Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Dracula as an elaborate dream of silent cinema. Tinted images, intertitles and stylised movement turn the familiar vampire story into something intimate and strange. This is accomplished formal experimentation, best paired with a similarly adventurous Gothic film.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 2/10
- Plot
- 7/10
- Effects
- 2/10
- Dialogue
- 4/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Dracula has exchanged spoken dialogue for ballet and silent-cinema fever dreams.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 46
Synopsis and movie facts
A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.
- Released
- 2002
- Directed by
- Guy Maddin
- Running time
- 74 min
Starring
- Wei-Qiang Zhang as Dracula
- Tara Birtwhistle as Lucy Westernra
- David Moroni as Dr. Van Helsing
- CindyMarie Small as Mina
- Johnny A. Wright as Jonathon Harker
- Stephane Leonard as Arthur Holmwood
- Matthew Johnson as Jack Seward
- Keir Knight as Quincy Morris
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 55616.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the meticulous recreation of silent-film lighting, makeup, intertitles, fades and colour tinting.
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