Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Neil Jordan
The moment I decided to write my reviews of motion pictures, I thought of starting with my favorites.
This film based on Anne Rice's novel is one of my all time favorites. There are many reasons to it. One is that it is the only film that features Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst, all great actors in their own way.
The other reason is the beautiful cinematography which gives every single scene an air of a painting masterpiece.
And then, we have Neil Jordan's superb and flawless direction which never loses its grip on the script.
This film shares many genres as it can not be classified as a typical vampire flick. It is not a vampires' world perceived by humans but the other way round. And then, their is the philosophical air woven into perfect dialogs that makes it a literary masterpiece. The music is haunting and the opening cast with "Liberame" in the background has a terrible touch of sadness.
Watching this movie, one doesn't fear the vampires but on the contrary one feels the anguish of living endlessly while seeing everyone and everything that is dear passing away before him.
The characters that are so human (though they claim not being human). Every single being in the film has a capacity of being both kind and cruel at the same time. There are no absolute goods or evils. Every one swings between both the extremes.
It was a great job to make such a metaphorical piece of art and then convince all those actors to participate in the project even though the actors were not as successful at the time (though their success attests to their talents).
And finally, being all philosophical and metaphorical, the film is not boring for even one second.
Thumbs up for Neil Jordan, Anne Rice and everyone else who participated in this great journey of art and entertainment.
I liked the aspect of Vampires looking at a Human's world. You are right to point out that this inversion is the delight of this film. None of the actors are great, but they are all good in this movie. Dunst gave her first, and last, good performance with this movie. Somehow...there should have been a character played by Al Pacino, in this movie, just somehow seems that that would have been perfect :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd you forgot the poor interviewer, Christian Slater
Oh Yeah! He too was there.
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