Distorted Dracula: Radu Jude’s Anti-Cinema
After countless adaptations of Bram Stoker – each more serious, glossier, masterful, and stylised than the last, with actors more fierce and more “transfigured” than the ones before – comes this wild, final outburst: a mioritic, meta-cinematic obsession that profanes them all. It’s the kind of film that could make Murnau himself throw a fit from beyond the grave. If it feels like revenge, it’s also a grand exorcism – rabid and boiling over like our zeitgeist, and a hyper-potent retort to the increasingly frequent pronouncements of cinema’s death. Cinema is pretty much having a hard-on!
Title
Dracula
Director/ Screenwriter
Radu Jude
Actors
Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, Alexandra Harapu
Country
Romania, Austria, Luxemburg, Brazilia
Year
2025
Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.
