Mixed Emotions…

Fun at the start, also with a nice ending — but I got lost for a while somewhere in between. I usually like dreamlike movies, but this constantly meandering, somewhat theatrical narrative style (think: a lighter version of what Aronofsky‘s Mother! does in terms of dramaturgy) comes with a high risk of loosing the audience if it turns too idiosyncratic. Mostly — and that‘s maybe the state of the world‘s fault, not the movie‘s — this felt alkwardly…

Some really great stuff in there — acting, sound, most of all the cinematography that beautifully blends contemporary art house horror and 1920s cinema style. Never really got hold though of the film‘s emotional core, a lot of gimickery that never really adds up to a sensable tonality. Yes, there’s all this gory-scary stuff, but the film does not seem to care about the poetics of fear — what does Orlok and all he brings with him stand for? The…