Daughter Of The Night (Silent)

 

 

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the movie is shot in a sort of dreamy grey sepia and has almost surreal backdrops. the actor makeup is sort of classical and this movie looks and feels like a classic silent movie...visualy. If all that mattered was visual appreciation this would rank a bit higher...though there is no different tint sequences, it still has a pretty neat look to it. Even the looking around eye movements add to this curious silent.

apparently translated from German, the dialogue cards appear authentic though they have no accompanying graphics. About 1/3 to 1/2 the time I had to replay them to read them as they often went by too quickly. There are a couple hand written letters and a telegram to read and they are indistict and hard to read and I could only get the gist of them...though they are seemlessy placed if this is a translated movie...as these are in English or French to English transitioned.

the music is not distracting or particularily inventive. I had to load this one about 10 or 11 times on my $10 dvd player to get it to load.

the box says this movie is 83 minutes long. hogwash. it's 53:30. there is a little bonus of a Bela Lugosi TV appearance in "You Asked For It" which appears to be from about 1950. it's only 8 minutes and 35 seconds. even with the adds which are 12 1/2 minutes this still doesn't add up to the posted 83 minutes. perhaps the 83 minutes was supposed to be printed as 53.

First this is not your typical Bela Lugosi fare; the title is a bit misleading if you think it's about a typical Bela type movie. ...he plays an in love man who comes in with a plot of sorts...if your looking for typical Bela Lugosi stuff or a nifty story this will dissapopint in both ways, though it is interesting to see Lugosi 11 years before Dracula.

the movie could have been very key and interesting as it is actualy filmed in 1920 and about the Russian struggles after the revolution and in that light it is an interesting peice. However the story is disjointed, and difficult to follow. It's like they figure we've figured out stuff or assume stuff and leave out key transitional sequences, so one is always trying to figure out what's going on or catching up. At one point...or perhasps the entire movie I thought we were situated in Paris when suddenly it is revealed we are in Russia. The key charachter who the movies title is named after is only revealed as who she is and suddenly the movie is over. I had to laugh...that's it!?

I hate giving a silent movie a 2 but it really can't rate any higher.

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