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.