Nadja (film)
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Nadja is a 1994 film by Michael Almereyda starring Elina Löwensohn as the creature Nadja and Peter Fonda as Van Helsing. As the character's names suggest, Nadja is a vampire film, but treating elements of the genre in an understated arthouse style.
The deadpan acting, episodic nature of the plot, and the presence of Martin Donovan and Löwensohn are suggestive of a Hal Hartley film though he was not involved in the production. The Chicago Review called it "Hal Hartley meets David Lynch".
The film is shot in black and white by Jim Denault mostly at night in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and is underscored by an incessantly creepy, dreamlike score/soundscape by Simon Fisher Turner as well as the songs Soon and Lose My Breath by My Bloody Valentine and Strangers and Roads by Portishead.
The film was classified R in the USA for some gore and sexual themes. In the rest of the world it generally received M (eg. M 15+ in Australia).
Cast
- Peter Fonda as Van Helsing
- Suzy Amis as Cassandra
- Galaxy Craze as Lucy
- Martin Donovan as Jim
- Jared Harris as Edgar
- Karl Geary as Renfield
- Elina Löwensohn as Nadja
- David Lynch (also Executive producer) as morgue attendant (cameo)
