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Radu Jude’s Dracula Opens in U.S. Theaters Today

Jude uses deliberately glitchy AI imagery to critique the technology.

Overview

  • Structured as an anthology of “digressions,” the film runs nearly three hours.
  • A framing thread follows a struggling director who turns to generative tools to deliver a studio-ordered Dracula.
  • Jude states he selected the “worst, most obviously fake” AI outputs for their poetic glitches and describes AI as parasitic.
  • An exclusive A.V. Club clip shows the character adopting a new system from an American-Japanese firm to fuse Vlad the Impaler with Dracula in modern Romania.
  • Early coverage describes a loose, satirical reimagining that probes Romanian identity and contemporary culture.