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Nadja
Why this pick
A downtown, black-and-white vampire film that similarly treats undead desire as a cool, literary condition, with deadpan urban alienation and an experimental independent-film texture.
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MOVIE1995 1h 22m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1994 New York City, Kathleen Conklin, an introverted graduate school student studying philosophy at the New York University, is attacked one evening on a Greenwich Village street by a woman who calls herself "Casanova." She pushes Kathleen into a stairwell and tells her to "order me to go away." When Kathleen is unable to do so, the woman bites her neck and drinks her blood. Kathleen soon develops several of the traditional symptoms of vampirism, including aversion to daylight and distaste for food. She grows aggressive in demeanor, and propositions her dissertation advisor for sex at her apartment, afterward stealing money from his wallet while he sleeps. Jean, a doctoral candidate in Kathleen's cohort (educational group), notices a rapid change in Kathleen's personality.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lili Taylor
Kathleen Conklin
Annabella Sciorra
Casanova
Edie Falco
Jean
Kathryn Erbe
Anthropology Student
Christopher Walken
Peina
Michael Imperioli
Missionary
Paul Calderon
Professor