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    Interview With The Vampire (1994)

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    After countless attempts to make a film of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire, Hollywood succeeded with Irish director Neil Jordan at the helm.

    The success of the film was in no small part due to the starry casting of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as – respectively – the aristocratic and immortal vampire Lestat, and his chosen acolyte, Louis.

    The film begins in San Francisco with an interview with the fetching Louis, a modern-day vampire who narrates the story of his life. That takes us to Louisiana in 1791 where the 24-year-old Louis, grieving over the death of his wife, submits to the magnetic Lestat who turns him into a vampire.

    Louis torches his plantation and moves to New Orleans with Lestat where his hopelessly immortal life takes on a new meaning with the arrival of a cherubic waif (Kirsten Dunst) who turns out to be deadlier than the vicious Lestat.

    Thus begins a bizarre saga of blood, bodies and bordellos that gets more intriguing when the scene changes to Paris, where orgiastic proceedings at the Theatre des Vampires, led by the irresistibly charismatic Armand (Antonio Banderas), add a new twist to the tale . . .

    Rice initially denounced the choice of Cruise, then published a fulsome change of heart in Variety, declaring “the charm, the humour and invincible innocence which I cherish in my beloved hero Lestat, are still alive in Tom Cruise’s courageous performance”.

    This “courageous” performance was reputed to be worth over $10 million in salary and bonuses to Cruise, plus a percentage.

    The undeniably stylish film lacks emotional depth, suffers noticeable long boring periods, and offers some horrific blood-sucking sequences.

    Lestat
    Tom Cruise
    Louis
    Brad Pitt
    Malloy
    Christian Slater
    Claudia
    Kirsten Dunst
    Armand
    Antonio Banderas
    Yvette
    Thandie Newton
    Widow St Clair
    Lyla Hay Owen
    Widow’s Lover
    Lee E. Scharfstein
    Estelle
    Sara Stockbridge
    Madeleine
    Domiziana Giordano
    Whore on Waterfront
    Virginia McCollam
    Gambler
    John McConnell
    Pimp
    Mike Seelig
    Tavern Girl
    Bellina Logan
    New Orleans Whore
    Indra Ové
    2nd Whore
    Helen McCrory
    Plague Victim Bearer
    Monte Montague
    Maid
    Nathalie Bloch-Lainé

    Director
    Neil Jordan

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