I like the way his movie went in more for atmosphere than action, implication rather than overt scenes, and used lighting and music to set the proper tone, with a minimum of blood and horror, and these in dream or imagined sequences.
I also like the centuries old family curse intruding on the modern day, with Leopoldo and Carmilla possible reincarnations of Ludwig and Millarca, doomed to repeat the past. Or is this just the wistful/wishful thinking of a young woman, hopelessly in love with her cousin, who can't accept his engagement to another woman, whom she also finds herself drawn to? What's more complex, an actual family curse or the workings of the mind?
The photography's compelling, the music's haunting, the atmosphere makes the movie worth watching, as you draw your own conclusion to the story.
I also like the centuries old family curse intruding on the modern day, with Leopoldo and Carmilla possible reincarnations of Ludwig and Millarca, doomed to repeat the past. Or is this just the wistful/wishful thinking of a young woman, hopelessly in love with her cousin, who can't accept his engagement to another woman, whom she also finds herself drawn to? What's more complex, an actual family curse or the workings of the mind?
The photography's compelling, the music's haunting, the atmosphere makes the movie worth watching, as you draw your own conclusion to the story.