Radu Jude is on a roll with rising distribution outfit 1-2 Particular, with not one however two movies coming this yr from the celebrated Romanian director of “Dangerous Luck Banging or Loony Porn” and “Do Not Anticipate Too A lot from the Finish of the World.”
The dry-humored satirist and infrequently openly form-busting auteur has his personal model of “Dracula,” a “gloriously silly” (IndieWire critic David Ehrlich’s phrases) epic concerning the making and unmaking of the unique vampire fantasy, unleashing generative AI image-making on it within the course of. There’s additionally “Kontinental ’25” — each movies enjoying the New York Movie Competition — which stars Eszter Tompa as a bailiff making an attempt to assuage her personal conscience after an eviction gone horribly fallacious.
However first up, “Dracula” will unleash from 1-2 Particular in choose theaters beginning October 29, in time for Halloween, and after enjoying the New York Movie Competition in late September. Like his prior movies, it’s one other exuberant laceration of late-stage capitalism, right here utilizing AI as a critique of itself in following two actors who got down to adapt the first-ever Romanian vampire novel.
Unique to IndieWire, Radu Jude shares a particular video message highlighting the movie’s upcoming, Halloween-centric launch date. Watch beneath.
“Pricey American associates, beginning the twenty ninth of October, you may see ‘Dracula’ by Radu Jude in cinemas in time for Halloween and different American holidays,” the message says. “The model supplied is of Dracula in lots of, many shapes and lots of, many kinds, some match for individuals who suppose American life is horrific, some match for individuals who suppose American life is nice once more. There’s one thing for everyone on this movie. Vampires, enjoyable, intercourse…” Hear what else the author/director needed to say within the video beneath.
Right here’s extra from IndieWire’s “Dracula” evaluation printed out of the Locarno Movie Competition: “A quasi-picaresque anthology about an unnamed director … who depends on a Transylvanian bot to salvage his new vampire film after it solely earns an 80 % approval rating from its newest check viewers, ‘Dracula’ supplies Jude a superbly dumb excuse to unleash AI on the cinema, literature, and historical past of a civilization that had already been feeding by itself neck for a century or longer earlier than ChatGPT first got here on-line.”
