The Vourdalak
Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria, Queens
$17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / $7 MoMI members
About
A screening of the film The Vourdalak. Directed by Adrien Beau and starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin and Vassili Schneider, it adapts Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1839 novella 'The Family of the Vourdalak,' telling of the Marquis d'Urfé, an envoy for the King who, lost in a misty forest, shelters with a Serbian family awaiting the return of their patriarch—only to find he has transformed into something both more and less than human. The unsettling, often funny vampire story combines live action with uncanny puppet effects and super 16mm widescreen cinematography.
Written by a model, sources: movingimage.org
Critics
7.0Good
Critics praise the tangible 16mm photography, the uncanny, memorable puppet vampire, the lead's performance and the film's atmospheric, subversive tone. Faults are barely mentioned; some find the character drama and pacing uneven before the horror takes hold.
Reviews: Midlands Movies, TMDb
Trailer
Showtimes
Sat 31 Oct
Museum of the Moving Image35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria
Venue
Museum of the Moving Image is in New York City’s Queens.
35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria
Museum of the Moving Image 21 more events- Director
- Adrien Beau
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 90 min
