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.
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:18
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.8/10
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
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Top CriticA 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
Top CriticA diversion that only makes you wish you could have seen Royal Winnipeg's original ballet.
10/09/03
Top CriticAmusing 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 CriticMaddin turns an old, dusty classic into something grippingly new.
08/08/03
Top CriticMaddin'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 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 CriticIt's sexy, brainy and slightly nuts.
07/08/03
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 CriticMaddin takes cinema to its outer limits without stranding you there in a vacuum of heady esoterica.
06/13/03
Top CriticMaddin 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 CriticA 75-minute tour de force that's often fascinating, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding.
06/06/03
Top CriticOne of the most bizarre and extraordinary dance movies you'll ever see.
06/05/03
Top CriticIt'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 CriticMaddin, whose gift for gothic ornamentation couldn't have a better showcase, takes a hysterical tale and just makes it more so.
05/14/03
Top CriticA glorious mix of dance, photography, music (by Gustav Mahler) and push-the- boundaries art.
05/14/03
Top CriticFor all its eccentricities and technical quirks, Dracula is a compelling expressionistic work.
05/14/03
Top CriticIt's a highly erotic work that at no point seems staged.
05/14/03
Top CriticMaddin 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 CriticOvertly erotic, willfully archaic, often inspired, uncannily affecting, and beautifully convulsive.
05/13/03
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