In a year in which so many movies have (pun intended) sucked, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary stands even higher as a triumph of artistry and entertainment.
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10/27/03
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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
A diversion that only makes you wish you could have seen Royal Winnipeg's original ballet.
10/09/03
It's far and away the most original symphony of terror since F.W. Murnau raised hackles and Schrecks with his 1922 Nosferatu.
08/31/03
It 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 takes cinema to its outer limits without stranding you there in a vacuum of heady esoterica.
06/13/03
Top CriticMaddin has created a filmic environment in which dance makes perfect sense and the absence of spoken text is irrelevant.
06/06/03
Maddin's work testifies to the notion that the past knows more than the present and that silent cinema is a richer, dreamier, sexier, and more resonant medium than what we're accustomed to seeing in the multiplexes.
07/16/03
Top CriticThe film is poetic and erotic, creepy and melodramatic, overwrought and sometimes mocking, as if F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) had a long-lost musical version.
07/04/03
Top CriticThe latest example of Maddin's alchemy, not his best, but still a picture that aficionados of classic film -- and classic Dracula -- should eagerly seek out.
07/10/03
Top CriticThe visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last.
05/15/03
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
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
This film does for ballet what Robert Altman's recent dud The Company couldn't: It brings the dance form alive on screen, at once making it sexy, stylish and relevant.
03/10/04
Loving, nostalgic caricature of old film styles and genres while adding ... humorous wit and a touch of surrealism.
07/15/02
Amusing as it is strange, Maddin's movie lingers in consciousness as a one-of-a-kind affair that emanates from a truly creative consciousness.
08/22/03
Top CriticRelying on the stage performance alone, there is little interesting about watching Dracula, Lucy, or Nina, pirouetting and prancing within their milieu.
12/31/03
A fevered, sexy take on the material, it plays up the desires of the female players, the repression of the men and Dracula's status as all-purpose object of dread and desire.
04/01/06
Maddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream.
05/14/03
Top CriticA fascinating hybrid -- and another delirious chapter in the Canadian maverick's still-evolving career.
05/13/03
A production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed.
12/06/05
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