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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Universal acclaim
Based on 19 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Mark Godden (ballet Dracula)
Bram Stoker (novel)
Directed by: Guy Maddin
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 14, 2003
DVD: May 18, 2004
Running Time: 75 minutes, B/W / Color
Origin: Canada
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Brings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
For all its eccentricities and technical quirks, Dracula is a compelling expressionistic work.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Succeeds despite that mismatch of artist and material.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Cameron S. gave it a 9:
Guy Maddin has constructed an unworldly, beautifully elegiac and literarily faithful rendition of Bram Strokers Dracula in silent ballet. Up until this film, my favorite contemporary Dracula adaptation had been Francis Ford Coppolas film, but Maddins film has knocked me out of my socks in one of the weirdest movies Ive ever seen. Stylistically, the film looks and feels as if it had been stored in a vault for 80 years and has just now been uncovered. It is scrappy and jolty rhythmically and unfolds in ballet sets. The dances are fascinating and compelled me throughout on its hyper driven warp of engagement. What he has obtained is dreamy beyond this times comprehensibility. He has used a style of the past of cinema and presents his oeuvre that completely transcends anything that has ever been done with Dracula. The ballet dances invigorate and entrancement of the words, seeing Van Helsing and crew take down Mina is astonishing in how it is delivered. The final product here is rich and sensuous, it invigorates the horror genre in a completely original working and comes out as quite dreamy interpretation of words.
