This offbeat horror item works much better as a dreamy mood piece with striking poetic images and as a semicomic appreciation of a few quintessential low-budget actors than as straight-ahead storytelling.
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10/20/09
Nadja (1994)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:4
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: This black-and-white fantasy follows the escapades of Dracula's daughter Nadja, who's living a bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. Dr. Van Helsing, the famous vampire hunter, has just... [More]
Starring: Elina Löwensohn, Peter Fonda, Jared Harris, Suzy Amis
Director: Michael Almereyda
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Reviews for Nadja
1 - 8 (sorted by date)
Top CriticA lovely idea for a film that's been beautifully executed but slips too far off its narrative tracks to get where it wants to go.
03/26/09
Top CriticIt is refreshing to see so much style and life in the old undead tale, and to watch this strong cast with its perfect deadpan attitudes.
05/20/03
Top CriticEven as Nadja descends deeper into its downward, surrealistic spiral, the movie's always great to watch.
01/01/00
Top CriticMichael Almereyda's insanely brilliant fantasia on the Dracula legend.
01/01/00
Top CriticHip. Cool. New Wave. Chic. These are only some of the adjectives applicable to Michael Almereyda's new take on the vampire legend. Of course, one other term springs to mind, but it isn't nearly as complimentary. Pretentious.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat could have been a brilliant short becomes deadly, stretched to feature length.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's the kind of movie that deals with unspeakable subjects while keeping a certain ironic distance, and using dialogue that seems funny, although the characters never seem in on the joke.
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