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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
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- Summary: 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)
- Director: Guy Maddin
- Genre(s): Horror, Musical
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100The visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last.
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100Guy 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.
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80This arty approach may dismay hard-core horror fans, but it captures the dark grace of the original with wit and style.
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50Maddin 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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