Robert Eggers' interest in making a remake of 'Nosferatu'an “unauthorized and unofficial” adaptation of the 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. They are one for another. And as expected, waiting or demanding the result is quite an experience… also on a cinematographic level, as the original 1922 film may well be; as well they can be'The witch‘ o ‘The lighthouse' by Eggers himself, a contemporary filmmaker committed to the past.
A filmmaker with an exquisite eye for the visual and the ornamental, being his 'Nosferatu' an authentic feast for the senses that has the same capacity as Orlok himself to, in front of a large movie screen and trapped in our respective heads, make us his own. A dark and nightmarish psychosexual fairy tale wrapped in a dense and poetic macabre rhetoric that is as hypnotic and fascinating as it is threatening and gloomy.
Also something flawed and imposed, because it does not stop being a remakeis still “Dracula”; It is still a well-known story told in such an exquisite way… as well as familiar. Even though, like for example those of 'let me in‘ o ‘Millennium', whether it is a remake in general terms narratively, technically and even spiritually very superior; Not in vain, more than 100 years have passed since the 'Nosferatu' original.
This OTHER remake It is still an elaborate, respectful and faithful love letter to the original, as well as a reverential tribute to primal terror. Even though, like the one directed in 2011 by David Fincher, it is a great remake…or a new adaptation with a very marked personality that overlaps and imposes itself on its original. Of course, Fincher (nor Matt Reeves) did not have a 100-year-old classic (legend and influence) in front of him.
Robert Eggers's interest in making a remake of 'Nosferatu'an “unauthorized and unofficial” adaptation of the 'Dracula'…by Francis Ford Coppola.
His version is a remarkable and overwhelming approach to an operatic and cryptic, folkloric and dreamlike, gothic and romantic story that feels “almost” new. This is almost what tarnishes the otherwise resounding ensemble a little, and also causes it to end up getting a little tiring at the end. And it's still as if the new thing from your favorite group, after years of waiting, was an album of versions of their classics that you've been listening to all your life.
By Juan Pairet Iglesias
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