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Jan. 22nd, 2025 03:23 amI watched the Eggers Nosferatu in the theatre with a couple of friends today. I'm... still processing it, but overall it didn't 100% hit for me.
There were some things I really enjoyed about it, which were mainly in the design and visuals. It was really nice to finally see a Dracula adaptation that felt European!
The 1830's German setting felt (at least to me, as a non-German) fairly authentic and was at any rate extremely aesthetic; I loved the introductory shots of narrow streets crowded by pretty wooden buildings and crammed full of people in 1830's attire running errands and driving cows.
The cinematography of Thomas' journey was gorgeous, and the scenes on his arrival in Transylvania were both beautifully shot and effective: the use of local actors speaking un-subtitled Romanian (and Romani, in the scenes with the travellers) was such a breath of fresh air after decades of adaptations where everyone inexplicably speaks Hutter's/Harker's language. The fact that he couldn't understand them and had to rely on their body language established his sense of unease very well, and it was also just cool to hear so much spoken Romanian! I really liked the look of the buildings and little details like road shrines, and the scene with the Orthodox monastery (I don't remember seeing Orthodox nuns/priests in a Dracula adaptation before, but really, they should be!).
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On the whole, if you leave aside the fact that I'm juuuust a bit too much of a horror wuss for this movie, it was a fairly enjoyable time, and it's going to need to percolate a bit more, but I still think the start was stronger than the second half.
There were some things I really enjoyed about it, which were mainly in the design and visuals. It was really nice to finally see a Dracula adaptation that felt European!
The 1830's German setting felt (at least to me, as a non-German) fairly authentic and was at any rate extremely aesthetic; I loved the introductory shots of narrow streets crowded by pretty wooden buildings and crammed full of people in 1830's attire running errands and driving cows.
The cinematography of Thomas' journey was gorgeous, and the scenes on his arrival in Transylvania were both beautifully shot and effective: the use of local actors speaking un-subtitled Romanian (and Romani, in the scenes with the travellers) was such a breath of fresh air after decades of adaptations where everyone inexplicably speaks Hutter's/Harker's language. The fact that he couldn't understand them and had to rely on their body language established his sense of unease very well, and it was also just cool to hear so much spoken Romanian! I really liked the look of the buildings and little details like road shrines, and the scene with the Orthodox monastery (I don't remember seeing Orthodox nuns/priests in a Dracula adaptation before, but really, they should be!).
( Read more... )
On the whole, if you leave aside the fact that I'm juuuust a bit too much of a horror wuss for this movie, it was a fairly enjoyable time, and it's going to need to percolate a bit more, but I still think the start was stronger than the second half.
