Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

2002
Romance, Horror
1h 13m
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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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

2002
Romance, Horror
1h 13m
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Avg Percentile 54.93% from 179 total ratings

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Rated 03 Mar 2015
62
60th
Perhaps not unexpectedly, this is probably Maddin's least essential film, but at the same time it's remarkable how of a piece with the rest of his work it does ultimately end up being (again, perhaps not unsurprisingly considering how much films like Vampyr and Nosferatu were already clearly important touchstones for Maddin's style to begin with). One might think that his rapid-fire montage techniques would be at odds with capturing ballet well on screen, but it actually works (for me anyway).
Rated 14 Aug 2007
79
63rd
Guy Madden is so close to being one of cinemas true originals. But instead he mixes the ingredients of filmmakers most directors have forgotten about and has fused together a production eerily familiar yet an experience like no other. Perhaps the best Dracula adaptation.
Rated 15 Dec 2007
63
20th
Overall I feel the bad decisions out weigh the good ones: Too much focus on Lucy, Dracula bites Lucy again on the neck AFTER she becomes a vampire, Mina wants to give Harker a blow job (before she meets Dracula), Dracula steals money from England and bleeds coins. What the hell were they thinking?
Rated 30 Nov 2010
35
90th
"A master conservationist and expert image-maker, Madden reimagines Bram Stoker's classic text as a feverish vision of Christian angst and cultural invasion." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 01 Jul 2011
79
63rd
79.000
Rated 20 Apr 2014
81
68th
80.500
Rated 21 Feb 2016
13
69th
Star Rating: ★★★1/2
Rated 08 Nov 2017
49
31st
The first part, the one of Lucy, it is kind of too long, the rest is at least watchable.
Rated 26 Jun 2021
55
18th
If you wanted to see Bram Stoker's story told as interpretive dance here it is. Perhaps I haven't seen enough of the old Hammer films to appreciate the variation. Casting an Asian Dracula was an inspired choice.
Rated 17 Apr 2022
75
71st
Is it weird that a 2002 silent movie ballet version is probably the most accurate (which doesn't necessarily mean faithful, though it is that too) adaptation of Bram Stoker's story? Dracula is explicitly the Dangerous Foreigner coming to pollute the pure blood of the English, the slaying of Lucy is an honour killing, and at the end we courteously decide to cover up that an English Lady got horny. Brilliant.
Rated 30 Oct 2022
68
40th
Hey, let’s adapt the second half of DRACULA into a ballet, then shoot it like a silent German Expressionist film set to a booming Mahler score. Fun!
Rated 19 Feb 2024
70
63rd
Maddin usually misses for me, but I felt that for the most part this works really well. He has a good grasp of his silent aesthetic schtick and it's only when he gets carried away with extraneous stylistic flourishes (the partial colourisation for instance) that it becomes cheapened. I'm not a big fan of his sense of humour either. Still, these are minor quibbles, and overall I thoroughly enjoyed the marvelously edited, shot and choreographed ballet cinematique.

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