>>6095047>TRANS AGENDAMy faith in French cinema has been restored because I was a bit concerned by French culture after watching Titane (2021) it seemed like everything was turning into the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
>>6073143However I watched a very charming French vampire film, Le Vourdalak (2023) it is based on an 1839 novel by Aleksey Tolstoy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_the_Vourdalak (not the War And Peace / Anna Karenina Tolstoy, some other author) it is very atmospheric and naturalistic / historical-looking, it has some gore but is actually more comedic / satirical social themes than frightening. The woman from that Assassins Creed film is in it lol
Vourdalak is some old Slavic word apparently meaning "wolf-fur" but the depiction is closer to a sort of flesh-eating ghoul / revenant skeletal corpse vampire than a werewolf. Contrasting the low budget marionette / puppetry look of this French film with the high budget CGI fx of The Crow film remake lol proves you don't need much digital pyrotechnics to create gothic atmosphere hehe
