Nosferatu
Chilling drama by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) about a tormented young woman and the lurid vampire in love with her, resulting in unprecedented horrors.
Great filmmakers like F.W. Murnau, Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola preceded him and now it is Robert Eggers’ turn to venture into a film about the doomed Count of Transylvania; a vampire who cannot suppress his lust and has set his sights on a young woman. Meanwhile, the count is being chased by an eccentric hunter.
Director Robert Eggers has been under the spell of Bram Stoker’s Dracula story since childhood. In Nosferatu, Eggers is particularly keen to flesh out the psychological and sexual connotations of the story. In Eggers’ film, evil is an elemental force, as inherent to human existence as sexual desire. (mv)