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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Zeitgeist Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Zhang Wei-Qiang,
Tara Birtwhistle,
Dave Moroni,
CindyMarie Small,
Johnny A. Wright,
Stephane Leonard,
Matthew Johnson,
and
Keir Knight
Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. (Zeitgeist Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Mark Godden (ballet Dracula)
Bram Stoker (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Guy Maddin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 18, 2004
Video: May 18, 2004
Theatrical: May 14, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
75 minutes, B/W / Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada |
Television Premiere, February 28th, 2002, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Best Performing Arts Program, 2002 International Emmy Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Maddin takes on his first commissioned feature--an adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Dracula--and succeeds brilliantly, making it his own while offering what may be the most faithful screen version to date of Bram Stoker's novel.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last.

100
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It's a highly erotic work that at no point seems staged. Credit brilliant use of fog, mirrors, silhouettes, slow motion and special effects worthy of a music video.

100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Guy Maddin is a scholar, poet, prankster, and ferociously devoted classicist who likes to resurrect dead cinemas and deader directors and make them vital all over again.

90
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
It's sexy, brainy and slightly nuts.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Brings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.

90
LA Weekly
John Powers
Maddin's genius is so inescapably idiosyncratic that his work seems destined to remain a cult taste. Although Dracula won't change that, I hasten to add that this is the most inventive vampire picture of the last 80 years.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
An inspired, original, and gracefully integrated collaboration of theater and cinema that complements not only both forms, but also the seductive, dreamlike qualities of the source material.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The 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.

80
Variety
Deborah Young
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.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
For all its eccentricities and technical quirks, Dracula is a compelling expressionistic work.

80
Empire
Patrick Peters
This arty approach may dismay hard-core horror fans, but it captures the dark grace of the original with wit and style.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Maddin has created a fascinating hybrid--this enraptured composition in mist, gauze, and Vaseline is more rhapsody than narrative, less motion picture than shadow play.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Succeeds despite that mismatch of artist and material.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Magnificently sensuous and macabre.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
A 75-minute tour de force that's often fascinating, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. So be patient -- the payoff will come.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Dracula fans will appreciate the witty ways in which Maddin has drawn Stoker's troubling racism and xenophobia to the fore, while making the most of the sexual ambivalence that helps make the story endlessly fascinating.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Its far and away the most original symphony of terror since F.W. Murnau raised hackles and Schrecks with his 1922 Nosferatu.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Maddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream.


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