I did not like or respond to the film the first time I watched it. About a year later I fell in love with the whole melancholy dreamy vibe and the way Franco inhabits locations. It helps that I adore Lina who I will miss for a long time.
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Female Vampire is like an eighty minute moving painting. In my opinion, it's there to be pretty, to be sexy, to be visually stimulating. There really isn't much of a story. It is what it is and I've always appreciated it, but can see how some might find it dull.Å–Çƈḱ!Ꞩẖȫçꞣ!Ƥӧê•!
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Originally posted by Alison Jane View PostFemale Vampire is like an eighty minute moving painting. In my opinion, it's there to be pretty, to be sexy, to be visually stimulating. There really isn't much of a story. It is what it is and I've always appreciated it, but can see how some might find it dull.
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The scene with her and the bedpost? I used to think 'hey now, that's kinda hot' but the other day after watching it, yeah, I can appreciate the taboo of what she's doing and the sexuality that's obviously key in the scene but given that she's unable to really have a sexual relationship with anyone without killing them is she having to resort to fucking a bed post in order to 'feel' what she would otherwise feel from her mate, be it male or female? Franco talks about how her character was meant to be sad in the interview and I did watch that before the movie so maybe that was in the front of my mind and I was looking for it, but he's right, there is a sadness to her character that in some ways dominates the more sexualized side of her character.Rock! Shock! Pop!
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It's not that I was expecting an exciting story, it's Franco after all. Some of his best films in my opinion are very non-narrative (Lorna, Virgin among ..., Vampyros, ...) but Female Vampire didn't have the same effect on my as his masterpieces, what I'd like to call the Franco-effect: the perfect combination of atmosphere, images (even if they are out of focus half of the scene), music, acting (even if it's sub-par), which creats a nostalgic, surreal and perverted sense of melancholy, making taboo subjects like incest or necrophilia seem achingly beautiful, as weird as that might sound. He's one of the only directors than can actually pull it off and I truly admire him for it. Every time the Franco-effect kicks in: goose-bumps!
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I am thrilled with Kino's FEMALE VAMPIRE. Lina's performance is enhanced in my opinion and she is more beautiful than ona the problematic Image release---The colours and locations are brighter and I dont care that it is not restored. Huge kudos to Kino/ Redemption on this release and a lovely tribute to Lina.Last edited by P. Querut; 10-21-2012, 08:42 PM.
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Jess Franco is a crazy genius....He's on the island of Madeira making a vampire film and somehow finds a car with a bat hood ornament that flaps it wings, films the car moving along the twisty roads from the perspective of the front seat for voice over narration sequences. How happy am I that there are films of his I have never seen including many from his 73--76 period.Last edited by P. Querut; 10-25-2012, 12:09 AM.
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Originally posted by P. Querut View PostI am thrilled with Kino's FEMALE VAMPIRE. Lina's performance is enhanced in my opinion and she is more beautiful than ona the problematic Image release---The colours and locations are brighter and I dont care that it is not restored. Huge kudos to Kino/ Redemption on this release and a lovely tribute to Lina.
I wish Franco had quickened the pace of his staging a beat or two. Even in the 1970s these were excruciatingly slow films. Everything he wants to show and make us feel would be driven home, so to speak, by the sense of purpose that comes out of dramatic timing.
Anyone know if Kino has plans to release other Franco Blu-rays?"I've been to college, but I can still speak English when business demands it."
- Raymond Chandler, 1939.
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