A movie about Dracula coming from Romania criticized by Hollywood Reporter. “Noisy and full of fellation”
The Romanian author Radu Jude is an extremely prolific director and sometimes takes out a little. But, in the case of his last film, “Dracula”, presented for the first time at the Locarno festival, “Jude has too many films in one”.
When you want to make a movie about all the vampires in one, then you reach something “swollen and devoid of direction,” writes Hollywood Reporter, in Jordan Mintzer's chronicle, about Radu Jude's “Dracula” film.
The idea started from an exasperated poison
For his part, Radu Jude told in the culture at the Duba that the idea was born after several films had been refused by the possible funders. And the idea came to invoke something that had not been conceptualized by him, but had a resonance: Dracula. And the joke turned into a project.
“From a crazy point, you still repeat the same thing and see in the man's eyes in front of you that, in fact, he is not interested. And then I said in a joke,” Look, we could do a Dracula. “Or” I have a project “, I actually had nothing. And that caused interest,” explained the director.
E for county fans or vampire fans
The result is, however, believes the critic at the Hollywood Reporter, something “intended for either vampire fans, or to the famous author, mostly of festivals.”
Director who does not run away from “burning problems” and social problems, Jude has a reputed filmography, notes the chronicler: “Babardea with balancing porn”, “the happiest girl in the world,” do not wait too long from the end of the world “,” Afer! “.
But the almost three hours of the new “Dracula” start “with an opening mount in which vampires generated by artificial intelligence exclaims:” I am Dracula and you can all suck me! “.
Fable
Then I come, says the chronicle, “the next three hours, which are full of vulgar jokes and all kinds of false, oral or other sex. The climax of perversion is a fable about a farmer that discovers magical penises growing in her corn chain.
“It is not very clear what Dracula has to do with this story,” writes Hollywood Reporter.
What for a chronicler in Romania could be a metaphor that shows the idea that we are used to Romania to extract everything we can get from Dracula's global reputation, for the Hollywood Reporter journalist is “confused because of the exhaustive material.”
Jude “sees Dracula as the greatest capitalist aggressor in fiction, who exploits the vital strength of others for his own pleasure, be it financial or physical,” believes Hollywood Reporter about Jude's “Dracula”.
In a world of “disposable images”
Maybe the film was an acidic attempt to criticize today's world, full of the left and people. He notes that Jude intentionally used Benny Hill's frenetic and simplistic style, with “scenes filmed in a digital format that shows a lot of a video.”
“His film sometimes seems intentionally cheap, as if the director would mimic all disposable images found on social networks and streaming platforms, including the wave of Slop that is currently flooding our screens.”
“Dracula can be a sincere attempt to criticize such images, as well as many other aspects of our extremely exploiting world. It is unlikely that such criticism will be seen or heard by many, or that it will last more than Dracula itself,” concludes the Hollywood Reporter.
