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mariocki · 4 years ago

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Les deux orphelines vampires (Two Orphan Vampires, 1997)

"We are sublime disorder. We're from before their god. They made him say 'Let there be light' to cut our night in half. But their order is chaos. Our disorder is mad poetry. Our existence awakens, and our night is clarity. The two orphan girls roar alone in the night, like flames."

#Les deux orphelines vampires #two orphan vampires #jean rollin #films i done watched #French cinema #Blood tw #Alexandra Pic #Isabelle Teboul #Natalie Perrey #Gudule #Bernard Charnacé #Nada Le Hoangan #Nathalie Karsenty #Anissa Berkani Rohmer #Véronique Djaouti #Brigitte Lahaie #Tina Aumont #Sandrine Thoquet #Melanie Karalli #Ohhhh I did not expect to enjoy this half as much as I did. I mean a Rollin film from the 90s? But wow what a pleasant surprise #A strangely sweet and elegiac waltz through an alternate Paris dreamworld: one of vampires and she wolves and ghouls #Feels less like a horror film tho and more like a sort of... Dark fairy tale. The two vampires at the heart of the story are unusual too in #Being so damn charming. Pic and Teboul channel this perfect mix of childlike innocence with a darker more dangerous animalistic edge #Rollin reins in his propensity for strong sex and violence and concentrates instead on philosophical musings about the nature #Of identity; the meeting of religion with magical realism; immortality in theory and in practice. A thoughtful meditative and weirdly #Very moving film which rises above its genre origins. Outside of the Iron Rose (and I'm not sure anything will ever quite replicate that #Experience) this has been easily my favourite Rollin film so far. Really kind of wonderful. Oh and the Tina Aumont cameo? Absolutely #Brilliant. According to imdb trivia she accidentally learnt the wrong part and had to improvise her scenes (as well as being deeply upset #Bc she worried she'd ruined the film). I hope someone told her how good she did. A few moments of screen time but the most hauntingly weird #And strangely affecting part of the film.

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