At the Locarno festival, “Dracula”, Radu Jude’s devastating film on AI

It is Grand-Guignol. Furthermore, but it is also tragic, as often with Radu Jude, whose work scrutinizes the ravages of the consumer society and social networks in its native country, Romania. Meanwhile, Winner of the golden bear. Therefore, in Berlin, with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), the director born in 1977, in Bucharest, had received the special jury prize in Locarno locarno festival, “dracula”, radu jude’s with Don’t wait too long from the end of the world (2023), no doubt his masterpiece.

This year, the filmmaker again seeks the golden leopard with DraculaMonster film on artificial intelligence (AI) applied to the cinema. The pitch is in two lines: a screenwriter. who probably does not have the energy to think, requests AI to expand the writing of a vampire film.

In a bathrobe. at his office, the 30 -year -old author (Adonis Tanta) delivers some instructions to a synthetic voice, which, in return, offers the most grotesque and vulgar stories there is. The filmmaker sometimes reluctant. not wanting to wallow too much in the mire; But when he dares, it can become hilarious, as when he asks the AI to draw inspiration from Dreyer’s film (Vampire1932), more commercial. Or to draw on the Dracula (1992) by Coppola.

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