Sex, TikTok and Ed Wood: Radu Jude Uses All the Tricks in Rule-Breaking ‘Dracula’ But At Least He ‘Didn’t Kill Anybody’ 

Romanian auteur Radu Jude takes on his country’s biggest icon Vlad the Impaler in Locarno premiere “Dracula”. And the results are… Sexy?

“Maybe I’m getting old. I didn’t realize there was so much [sex], but I was playing with the rules of the market,” he tells Variety.

“They say that to have a successful film, you need some genre, which is where the vampires come in, some action and some sex – mostly heteronormative, because that’s your biggest audience. So that’s what I provide. Also, I’m heterosexual, so it wasn’t like I was forcing myself.”

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