DRACULA

With DRACULA we are thrilled to see director Radu Jude’s creative, anarchistic turn on big screen, while his conventional, Kontinental ’25 is still fresh in our minds. You probably haven’t heard of Radu Jude, I hadn’t. But now that I have… It’s apparent that he is working like no one else in the business. 

“[Dracula]’s fucking nuts … A film that will be studied for decades!” (rogerebert.com)

Transylvania is widely known as the birthplace of Dracula, widely known that is, outside Transylvania itself, whose residents had to read about this local-imported fantasy in translation, thrust upon them by the Irish author Bram Stoker.

Jude’s Dracula is e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g – except (but including) the austere depictions of Dracula throughout film history. It is Dracula from the POV of a Romanian director who tries everything to create a film about Dracula, all the while critiquing everything from IP to AI, and subverting and innovating on as many cinematic traditions as possible – a film about “Dracula … built more like Frankenstein” (Variety)

Jude promises a kaleidoscopic and, according to him, super-commercial movie if you like “strong feelings, sex, nudity, action, blood, vampires, AI-generated images, car-chases and comedy of the highest quality.”