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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) -- G. Maddin
If you wanted to film
a staged ballet, this is the way to do it:
Hire Guy Maddin! The Canadian
filmmaker rips apart the footage (Super 8 and other formats) and edits it back
together in a delirious montage, processing it to one inch from death (or
beyond -- this is the story of Dracula, after all) so that it looks like a
silent film with faux tinting in phantastic colors with blurry edges and stark
contrast. A few sustained dances creep
in but this is largely an exercise in assemblage. The well-known story is given
a few tweaks and it doesn't hurt that it takes place in the Victorian era, a
Maddin specialty.
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