A.I. is vampiric in Dracula—and so too is our modern culture of depraved sex, violence, and exploitation, all of which prove juicy targets into which writer/director Radu Jude sinks his satiric teeth.
Using Bram Stoker’s horror classic as the framework for a scathing takedown of modern technology as it pertains, in particular, to cinema—not to mention the brutality and callousness of capitalist and fascistic states alike—the Romanian firebrand’s second film of 2025 (alongside Kontinental ’25) is a raucous mélange of the demented and the degrading, indulging in the very garish, grotesque, X-rated madness it condemns.
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