A struggling director engages in dialogue with a supposed artificial intelligence that generates a series of delirious variations on Dracula, blending politics, folklore, and comedy. The film proceeds fragmentarily through metacinematographic deviations and deliberately awkward visual inventions.
A sort of essay film that deliberately delves into trash and wackiness to discuss the quintessential bloodsucker, but also capitalism, cultural appropriation, and freedom of thought and action. (Raffaele Meale)
Radu Jude reinvents the vampire in a desecrating collage: AI, pornography, parody, and references from Murnau to Coppola for an irreverent rewriting of the myth. (Francesco Cianciarelli)
Radu Jude's new work, the many faces of the vampire embodied by today's capitalism, is in competition. The masks of the macho man and the priest, the detours and references, the director's interludes with AI, and the role of social media. (Cristina Piccino)
