Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)

Geez, are all ballet movies this awesome? My current favorite Maddin film in a walk, mainly because Maddin seems to be taking the material seriously -- his trademark snark pokes through occasionally (like in the amusing, right-angle intertitles), but for the most part he puts the action through his patented Grain-o-Tinter and stands out of the way. Technically assured and filled with extremely potent eroticism; no idea what the money symbolism stands for, though.

Grade: A-