Cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with an outrageous, madcap epic exploring the past, present, and future of the Dracula myth.
A frustrated filmmaker, facing creative paralysis, turns to an A.I. chatbot in order to make his latest movie a hit. The result is a series of increasingly outrageous vignettes exploring the myth of Dracula in all its forms. From a wild chase through the streets of modern Transylvania to eerie hauntings in the Romanian countryside, cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with another boundary-pushing epic featuring a union-busting Dracula breaking a strike, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, thwarted romance, fields of phalluses, lots of blood, and much more. [170 min; comedy, horror; Romanian with English subtitles]
This screening is supported by the Institute for European Studies, a Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence.
"A raucous mélange of the demented and the degrading, indulging in the very garish, grotesque, X-rated madness it condemns." — Nick Schafer, The Daily Beast
"It’s f*cking nuts." — Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"Radu Jude’s gleefully stupid Dracula proves much too expansive—and much too invested in the centuries of barbarism that paved the way toward Silicon Valley—to be misunderstood as a simple rebuke against the grotesqueries of algorithmic image-making." — David Ehrlich, IndieWire
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