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Never Say Die: The Vampire Women of Neil Jordan’s “Byzantium”

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Although Neil Jordan did not write “Byzantium,” his latest crepuscular tale of the unwillingly undead, which opened Friday, it augments several of the Irish director’s previous films — not just “Interview With a Vampire.”

Its fairytale Gothic recalls “A Company of Wolves.” Its seedy seaside setting evokes the ending of “Mona Lisa.” A summit attended by “Byzantium”’s transgressive bloodsucker Clara (Gemma Arterton) and the leaders of the all-male vampire enclave suggests the conspiratorial atmosphere of “The Borgias” filtered through the baroque era. Like “The Company of Wolves,” meanwhile, the movie hovers around the subject of female sexual awakening. And like “Mona Lisa,” it deals with the horror of a young girl’s rape and necessarily purges the perpetrators. Read the full article here


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