The unkillable vampire legend gets one of its frequent cinematic resurrections (this Venice Film Festival alone boasted three more: “El Conde” in competition, “En Attendant la Nui…
.” The idea of a vampire who doesn’t want to kill is hardly without precedent. But Louis-Seize’s eager debut, intentionally or otherwise, plays to a relatively vamp-starved demographic, providing continuity to kids who have long outgrown the “Sesame Street” version, but are still a bit young for the emo lustiness of the “Twilight” franchise. It’s more fairy tale than scary tale.
Sasha has always been different from her blithely bloodsucking kinfolk. On her birthday, little Sasha is being entertained by a party clown, only to quail when it becomes clear that the man in the wig and the red nose is there to be both dinner and a show. Some years later, Sasha has never developed fangs and survives on the largesse of her doting father and less indulgent mother . They stock the fridge with baggies of blood drained from their kills, which Sara sucks down like Capri-Sun.
Discovering that she’s now equipped to do her own murdering, her parents cut off her blood supply, sending Sasha to live with her cousin Denise a snarling redhead with as few qualms about killing as Sasha has kills. But the connection that Sasha and Paul have formed suggests a different, more mutually desirable way out — if only feelings don’t get in the way.
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