More than a hundred years after its release, this cult film returns to the cinema in a new, more modern adaptation. This is one of the events of the end of the year.
For the holidays, we may be tempted to take advantage of the holidays to turn to traditional Christmas romantic comedies or adventure or animated films to watch with the family. But if you’re looking to change your end-of-year habits, you could be tempted by this revisitation of a classic of the seventh art, modernized for the audience of 2024.
On the other hand, prepare yourself for a change of atmosphere compared to the sweet and comforting productions of the end of the year. Nosferatu Robert Eggers version is a dark, distressing, graphic and very gothic film. Like Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s silent film, released in 1922, the 2024 version begins with the journey of a young notary’s clerk who has just had a happy marriage, forced to go to Transylvania to sell a property to a count. But events will take a particularly dark turn when the count, called Orlock, decides to set his sights on the hero’s wife Ellen.
Nosferatu the vampire is a classic of German cinema, and a classic of cinema in general. Despite the controversies (notably accusations of plagiarism because it is a free adaptation of the novel Dracula), this horror film, pioneer of German expressionism, has already been entitled to a remake with Isabella Adjani released in 1979, Nosferatu, ghost of the night.
The adaptation proposed by Robert Eggers for the viewer of 2024 transports the viewer to a Gothic Germany, which focuses everything on its particularly careful aesthetic. The regulars of the history of Dracula and vampire films in general will undoubtedly find nothing new in the scenario of this film, nevertheless very successful from a graphic point of view and in its sticky atmosphere. Still, the feature film is worth it for the astonishing performance delivered by Lily-Rose Depp, who gave everything in her incarnation of Ellen.
If you’re not afraid of diving into a horrific atmosphere during the end-of-year holidays, go and see Nosferatuwhose 2024 remake is released right this Wednesday, December 25 in French cinemas.