By the end, you'll wonder why all films aren't made this way.
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:50
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Guy Maddin's film is a richly sensuous and dreamy interpretation of Dracula that reinvigorates the genre.
Theatrical Release:May 14, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of... [More]
Starring: Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, CindyMarie Small, David Moroni
Director: Guy Maddin
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Reviews for Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
One of the most bizarre and extraordinary dance movies you'll ever see.
06/05/03
As lifeless as a Masterpiece Theatre broadcast, broken up by pirouettes and pliés instead of Alistair Cooke's droning.
05/30/03
A misguided attempt to make an arty silent film.
08/08/03
Degree of difficulty: off the charts. Level of achievement: ditto.
06/27/03
Amplifying the story's eroticism, Maddin cleverly transforms Stoker's timeless tale into an allegory about both Victorian sexual oppression and xenophobia.
05/16/03
A dance version that gorgeously captures the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's artistry while razzing the xenophobia and carnal hysteria underpinning Bram Stoker's story.
01/29/04
The visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last.
05/15/03
Though it sounds like an offbeat idea even for horror fans, the tech work is so well done that it could disarm unwary buffs attracted by the campy title.
09/26/07
Maddin turns an old, dusty classic into something grippingly new.
08/08/03
Top CriticA master conservationist and expert image-maker, Madden reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic text as a feverish vision of Christian angst and cultural invasion.
05/09/03
Maddin is an image-maker first and a storyteller second, and most of the fun in watching Dracula is sharing the high he feels in building such giddy, gauzy atmosphere.
06/06/03
Top CriticFar from gimmicky, it's as personal and unreserved as filmmaking gets.
05/16/03
It's one thing to revive Dracula from the dead -- anyone, from Herzog to breakfast cereal companies, can do that -- but it's something else entirely to make him rock the house like this.
05/30/03
Top CriticLoving, nostalgic caricature of old film styles and genres while adding ... humorous wit and a touch of surrealism.
07/15/02
Relying on the stage performance alone, there is little interesting about watching Dracula, Lucy, or Nina, pirouetting and prancing within their milieu.
12/31/03
Overtly erotic, willfully archaic, often inspired, uncannily affecting, and beautifully convulsive.
05/13/03
Top CriticIt will no doubt leave ballet fans somewhat nonplussed, but this evocative danse macabre is an unusually insightful addition to the Count's long list of cinematic appearances.
11/25/03
Maddin follows the time-tested PBS route, giving the dancers a stage instead of a film set and using cornball dissolves and fog machines.
06/06/03
Maddin's Dracula will entrance you with its first few flickering frames and then hold you there spellbound until its climatic dance of death.
07/22/02
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