DIR. GUY MADDIN | 2002 | CANADA | 75 MIN - Silent with English intertitles

*Pre show talk with Tara Birtwhistle and special guest

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Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has created a ravishing treatment of this gothic horror. In conjunction with the return presentation of the RWB presentation of the ballet, the RWB and Cinematheque present this sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary is a gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler.

“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.” - Bruce Diones, New Yorker

About Tara Birtwhistle:
A principal dancer in the RWB, Tara Birtwhistle dazzles her audiences in roles that emphasize her dramatic talent, versatility, and chameleon like qualities.

This presentation of Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary has been generously sponsored by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.