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Lips of Blood

Lips of Blood

1975
Horror
1h 28m
This erotic vampire film features a young man on a strange quest after recognizing a castle on a poster. He seems to remember the castle from his childhood and eventually finds it with the aid of a strange woman dressed in white. It turns out that his family has been keeping the secret of vampirism from him. (imdb)
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Lips of Blood

1975
Horror
1h 28m
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Rated 28 Oct 2020
85
66th
Rollin is such a bizarre intersection of high-minded art cinema and utter trash.
Rated 23 Jan 2016
77
55th
Jean Rollin's movies are known to be dream-like, which can be a polite way of saying that his scripts are incoherent and illogical. To be clear: his scripts are all those things and the little structure they do have is provided by the obsessions of his main characters - in this case a man in search of a girl he saw in his childhood (although it is unclear she actually exists). The dialogue was a little too artsy for my (quite artsy) tastes, but I appreciate Rollin's idiosyncratic cinematography.
Rated 05 Sep 2009
80
76th
This is dreamy, homesick and artificial cinema and in all the nudity and horror Rollin set up, he's enormously melancholic and sentimental. The plot here (a landscape image evoke memories for our protagonist) is a great springboard for the director's fascinacion and preoccupation with the languorously occult, naked woman and (very stilted) philisophical dialogue. The first 30 minutes are fantastic - Rollin on top of his game - the rest is fascinating if not always beautiful and great.
Rated 20 Nov 2022
60
54th
I admire the gall of Rollin for including a scene in this film in which the main character, Frederic, goes to the cinema to see a Rollin film ('Le Frisson des Vampires')! Rollin also makes it explicit that he is an admirer of Buñuel (this can only be a good sign) as there is a shot with a poster of 'Le Fantôme de la liberté' in the background. Filming the nude human body in a way that communicates the spiritual and corporeal nature of humanity is not easy, but Rollin does it again here.

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