A balletic Dracula

Guy Maddin's unusual take on Bram Stoker's story sets members of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet against the director's version of a silent movie. The result is a hauntingly graceful vision of the late-Gothic novel, peppered with high camp.

As performed by Zhang Wei-Qiang, Dracula takes on a more exotic allure and the book's eroticism is heightened by the sensuality of the movement and the action. The melodrama of Expressionistic silentfilm gestures gains a new poise in this balletic context and the tinted black-andwhite footage, gauze filters and iris dissolves all contribute to the eerie atmosphere.

Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary
Cert: 12A

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