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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
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An elaborate, self-conscious but arresting take on the Dracula myth. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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By the end, you'll wonder why all films aren't made this way. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
A production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Maddin's Dracula takes us fantastically through gothic places that Bram Stoker failed to report in a production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Marries B&W silent horror-movie style with beautifully eerie ballet in a succulently cinematic, lustfully melodramatic adaptation that is at once wholly unique and uncommonly faithful to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Anybody who’s willing to bring their own ideas about sex, love, and bloodletting to the film will likely find themselves sucked into Maddin’s growing cult. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It's a throwback to the days when horror movies often had a certain visual grandeur. And while one may miss a modern frisson or two, there's still a great deal of dreadful beauty to relish. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Just when you think that holly stakes, garlic, crucifixes and capes are all there is to vampire stories, Maddin and the Royal Winnipeg put Dracula back on his toes. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A dance version that gorgeously captures the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's artistry while razzing the xenophobia and carnal hysteria underpinning Bram Stoker's story. Full Review |
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Attractive art house picture. Full Review |
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F |
Relying on the stage performance alone, there is little interesting about watching Dracula, Lucy, or Nina, pirouetting and prancing within their milieu. Full Review |
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A- |
It's a thoroughly rousing parade of invention. And visual? Like nothing you've ever seen. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Much more about the hows (and maybe the whys) than it is about the whats. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A diversion that only makes you wish you could have seen Royal Winnipeg's original ballet. Full Review |
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