#andriesh

“Is a early Paradjanov movie, and […] it is like a Moldovian folktale. You know this is a spoiler, I suppose, for “Nosferatu”, but it features a evil sorcerer, with a phallic personality and a really large moustache. Paradjanov’s love of folk culture is something that, you know, I can really relate to. And his films are very inspiring because of how much he dives into the details of folk culture.”

Robert Eggers, le réalisateur de Nosferatu est dans le Vidéo Club

“Paradjanov is a really fascinating filmmaker, who is really into recreating folk culture with a lot of detail. And he, you know, does these beautiful tableaus, that are interpretations of the Art from the world he’s trying to articulate and bring us into.”

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“It’s called “She-Butterfly”, and […] What I think what’s really cool about this is that this is a really fascinating folk horror movie, that has stuff that is not part of the American tropes of vampires. And the vampire kind of looks like a werewolf, which is, by the way, very consistent with Serbian folklore. To me it’s interesting to consider, yeah, Orlok looks different than Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee or Frank Langella, but he also doesn’t look like a werewolf. And, yes, we drink blood from the chest because that’s the [Balkan and Slavic] folklore […] But no one is worrying about his soul turning into a butterfly, because that’s doesn’t make sense with this movie. But it’s a very naive movie but sometimes the simplicity of the filmmaking makes it quite terrifying.”