Nadja (1994)
Director: Michael Almereyda
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Highly stylised b/w camerawork and Pixelvision, moody poeticism, and farcical genre parody merge to tantalising if not altogether coherent effect in Almereyda's quirky New York update on the Dracula story. The heavily Mittel-European persona of Löwensohn is used effectively as the Count's enigmatic, doomy daughter who hopes to tempt Lucy (Craze) away from her husband (Donovan), while desperately trying to get in touch with her own estranged twin brother. About blood, blood ties and breakdown (of familes, relationships and, perhaps, an entire society), it's an idiosyncratic film, admired by many for its strong atmosphere, and by this writer for its absurd(ist) casting of a barely recognisable Fonda as Donovan's mad uncle Van Helsing.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Almereyda
Producer: Mary Sweeney, Amy Hobby
Cast: Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Jared Harris, Elina Löwensohn, Karl Geary, David Lynch full cast
Duration: 100 mins
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