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“Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film technique, avant-garde imagery, and 21st century technology….Victorian sexuality and melodrama are brought together in a shadowy world of expressionistic images and an athletic, almost rabid, choreography.” – The New YorkerFrom the mad genius of Winnipeg, Guy Maddin, whose ravishing excursions into old-cinema style include The Saddest Music in the World, Rumours and The Forbidden Room, DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN’S DIARY is an all-too-rarely-screened treasure of terror. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Maddin forges a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. This black-and-white, blood-red-punctured DRACULA is a Gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler. The result is “the most startlingly original and creative reading of Dracula ever put to film” (Parallax View)!
Come out early for a Spooky Ballet pre-show, starting at 2:30 pm, featuring Jerome Robbins’ The Cage!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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