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2024
Lily-Rose Depp delivers a convincing tortured performance as Ellen and it anchors the film’s psychological weight, embodying the Freudian ordeal of attraction and revulsion with subtlety. While the vampire is stylized, he lacks the insidious fright which feels necessary. Ultimately the film is not a successful horror film because it isn't scary. But it is beautiful and some of the acting has chops.
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2017
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You have on the surface a film which is about a prickly, difficult man who is defined by his rituals, who is absolutely intolerant and intolerable. Then you have a layer underneath which refers to a canon of films and literature (Hitchcock's Rebecca, Powell/Pressburger, even Felini). And then the whole thing has a fairytale, dreamlike charm - Bluebeard, Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstitlskin, etc.
Then on top of all this, the film is really funny. It's hard to understand how…
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2024
Lily-Rose Depp delivers a convincing tortured performance as Ellen and it anchors the film’s psychological weight, embodying the Freudian ordeal of attraction and revulsion with subtlety. While the vampire is stylized, he lacks the insidious fright which feels necessary. Ultimately the film is not a successful horror film because it isn't scary. But it is beautiful and some of the acting has chops.
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2017
Liked Rewatched
You have on the surface a film which is about a prickly, difficult man who is defined by his rituals, who is absolutely intolerant and intolerable. Then you have a layer underneath which refers to a canon of films and literature (Hitchcock's Rebecca, Powell/Pressburger, even Felini). And then the whole thing has a fairytale, dreamlike charm - Bluebeard, Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstitlskin, etc.
Then on top of all this, the film is really funny. It's hard to understand how…
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