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Movie Review: Nadja (Almereyda)

I watched Nadja because it had a lot of actors from Hal Hartley films in it, and because Blade 2 was coming out so my friends had been talking about vampire movies lately. This is certainly different than most vampire movies - it has a hint of the Hal Hartley-ish dialog, the indie film production values, the pixelvision camera. But it also walked a line between comedy and horror, and it was hard to tell what was intentionally funny and what was just poor production values or unintentionally funny. And the use of the pixelvision was weird, because it was used for the vampire sequences, but the vampires were supposed to have heightened senses, yet we always saw their view through this much less vivid imagery. And the movie did have that feel of a student film at times, trying out these different things in different scenes, without having that overall sense of style and tone that professional movies usually have. All of these things aren't terrible things, but I think they did add up to me not enjoying the movie that much - it fell flat for me. But the real question will be, is it better than Blade 2, which I may not be able to answer for a while.