[CINEMA] Dracula, a halftone adaptation signed Luc Besson

Bram Stocker’s novel is decidedly entitled to honors this year; After the excellent Nosferfrom Robert Eggers, released last January, Luc Besson today delivers his own cinematographic version of Dracula. For example, An increasingly complex challenge, as the vampire myth has been seen and revised. However, Especially since Luc Besson-a supporter filmmaker in favor of the outrageous Americanization of French cinema since the 1980s-has never shown. Nevertheless, in our opinion, a particularly refined taste, until then. In addition, Like Jan Kounen. Furthermore, Mathieu Kassovitz, this zealous and namous flagorman of directors across the Atlantic found nothing better, to counter Parisian bourgeois cinema, heir to the new wave, than to eradicate in his intellectual imagination all traces of Francité. In addition, So that certain innovations of its Dracula pleasantly surprised us …

First a tribute to Coppola’s film

Turned between the [cinema] dracula, halftone adaptation signed studios of Tigery (in Essonne). Therefore, Finland (for exteriors), this new iteration – considered already as the most expensive French film of 2025, with its 45 million euros – takes up the history of the famous Romanian vampire, inspired by the Vlad III Vlad III (Vlad II, tells us the film…). But rather than from the novel by Bram Storing. Besson recycles as a tribute the frame imagined by Francis Ford Coppola in his 1992 version. Indeed. the Prince of Valachia, after having rejected the Ottoman invasions in the name of the Catholic Church, despite himself caused the death of his partner Elisabeta – a character who did not exist in the novel of origin – Soul to the devil and becomes a vampire. Four hundred years later. Dracula will have the opportunity to find her lost love and to bind to her for eternity …

A intrigue relocated to [cinema] dracula, halftone adaptation signed France

Let’s say it right away. the version of Luc Besson does not have the neo-Gothic charm of that of Coppola or the expressionist beauty of that made by Eggers. Facked with advertising tics. clippes, as the filmmaker has used us there throughout his filmography, the film still offers some daring innovations: in addition to a soundtrack signed Danny Elfman, usual composer of the romantic cinema of Tim Burton, we salute the choice to relocate the intrigue of London to Paris, at a time when the French ecclesiastical environment is The philosophy of progress. Exit The vampire hunter Van Helsing. it is now a priest and a doctor (played respectively by Christoph Waltz and Guillaume de Tonquédec) who, against all expectations, will have to line their forces to face Dracula. Too bad that all these beautiful people are expressed in English …

For a teenage audience

Pushing romanticism to his [cinema] dracula, halftone adaptation signed climax. Luc Besson favors his love story, humanized his vampire to the point of conferring contradictory feelings and thus entrusting him with the keys to the resolution of the intrigue. The image of the evil. devastating creature takes a serious blow – not everyone will appreciate this foray into the teenage imagination of Twilight and Vampire Diaries. Likewise, use ad nauseam Gargoyles in synthetic images, Dracula’s suits, was not essential … In short. if it was necessary to choose only one for 2025, we would without hesitation the reader the version of Robert Eggers; her Nosfer is of a completely different level, whether in terms of writing or staging.

2.5 out of 5 stars