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La fiancée de Dracula (Dracula's Fiancee, 2002)
"A figure in white. She was moving."
"Alive?"
"She's dead, but retains a semblance of life, thanks to him."
"He loves her that much?"
"Passionately."
#la fiancée de dracula#dracula's fiancee#blood tw#french cinema#jean rollin#2002#cyrille gaudin#jacques orth#thomas smith#sandrine thoquet#magalie madison#céline mauge#marie laurence#danièle servais orth#denis tallaron#sabine lenoël#brigitte lahaie#bernard musson#natalie perrey#céline clémentel#thomas desfossé#mira petri#i can't find a great deal of info about this but i suspect it never saw a cinema release‚ thus the disappointing box art I've had to go#with. late stage Rollin finds the director channelling a kind of greatest hits of themes and ideas‚ with a tendency to go overboard in the#absurdity; cigar smoking nuns and baby eating ogres may be weird‚ but they kind of break the otherworldly spell by just going that bit too#far. still‚ Rollin's eye for an incredible visual remains as on point as ever (a grandfather clock on a moonlit beach‚ papal skeletons#playing chess) and his script is as poetic (and as indecipherable) as always. Lahaie has a highly memorable cameo and the young#cast of largely unknowns do well to maintain the artsy (if sometimes fartsy) atmosphere. not an auteur at his best‚ perhaps‚ but an old#master in reflective and playful mood. so far Two Orphan Vampires is the best of the late stage Rollin I've seen but this is by no means a#bad film; indeed‚ if he ever made a bad film‚ I've yet to see it
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