The Addiction
1995
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| Starring | Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Edie Falco, Annabella Sciorra |
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| Director | Abel Ferrara |
| Genres | Horror |
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The Addiction
The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
| Starring | Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Edie Falco, Annabella Sciorra, Paul Calderon |
|---|---|
| Director | Abel Ferrara |
| Studio | PATHE DISTRIBUTION LTD |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 30 Jun 2003 Production year: 1995 |
| Format | DVD |
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This New Wave tale is Abel Ferrara's most idiosyncratic film to date. Shot in black-and-white for that Andy Warhol feel, it stars Lili Taylor as a New York University philosophy student-turned-vampire who spends as much time pondering the Nietzschean significance of her gory deeds as she does finding her victims. Intriguing and stylish, if pretentiously over-intellectualised, the film is hard-hitting if you're in the right frame of mind and can cope with such arch dialogue as “Do you want an apology for ethical relativism?” Otherwise, approach with caution.
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Ferrara bites off more than he can chew in this horror movie, using images of massacres and concentration camp victims to emphasize his depiction of power-crazed bloodlust let loose on society; but his fiction shrivels in the light of these actual horrors
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Arty but beautifully shot
Mixed bag this film: you definitely have to be in the right mood to watch it, and I'm not sure I was.
Beautifully shot in black and white, it's the filmography that sticks in the mind more than the plot: partly because it takes a (slow) back seat to the 'vision', but also partly becuase you do have to concentrate.
You're either going to love this or hate it (just look at the reviews on Amazon): either a superb example of the cinematic art or pretentious waffle.
If you are a fan of the genre - or Nietzsche - you'll love all the tributes and layered meanings. It's slow, self-absorbed, but undoubtedly different. I'm glad I saw it, but not sure whether it'd want to see it again.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Arty but beautifully shot
Mixed bag this film: you definitely have to be in the right mood to watch it, and I'm not sure I was.
Beautifully shot in black and white, it's the filmography that sticks in the mind more than the plot: partly because it takes a (slow) back seat to the 'vision', but also partly becuase you do have to concentrate.
You're either going to love this or hate it (just look at the reviews on Amazon): either a superb example of the cinematic art or pretentious waffle.
If you are a fan of the genre - or Nietzsche - you'll love all the tributes and layered meanings. It's slow, self-absorbed, but undoubtedly different. I'm glad I saw it, but not sure whether it'd want to see it again.
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