Isabelle Huppert protagonista del film sui vampiri di Ulrike Ottinger, La contessa di sangue

Un'accoppiata autore-attore quasi all'altezza di Johnnie To e Tony Leung arriva da Variety, secondo cui Ulrike Ottinger dirigerà Isabelle Huppert in The Blood Countess, un film di vampiri basato sulla famigerata Elizabeth Báthory da una sceneggiatura della Ottinger e di Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher). Lars Eidinger (Irma Vep), Thomas Schubert (Afire) e Birgit Minichmayr (Everyone Else) saranno i co-protagonisti; le vendite inizieranno a breve all'European Film Market. The Blood Countess è descritto come un "mistero vampiresco coinvolgente e deliziosamente eccentrico" che si svolge come "una caccia al tesoro narrativa e altamente visiva" Ecco la sinossi ufficiale dell'agente di vendita Magnify "[Madame Báthory] e la sua devota cameriera (Birgit Minichmayr) si imbarcano in una ricerca barocca attraverso Vienna per recuperare l'elisir rosso della vita. Il libro, se trovato e letto dai nemici del vampiro, minaccia il loro regno vampiresco. Alle loro calcagna ci sono un nipote vegetariano (Thomas Schubert), il suo psicoterapeuta (Lars Eidinger), due vampirologi, un ispettore di polizia e altri personaggi vivaci in questa storia di vampiri contorta e umoristica". A chi non conosce Ottinger si consiglia di cercare film come Biglietto di non ritorno o Madame X, che Richard Linklater (in un video di Criterion Channel, poi scomparso) ha elevato al di sopra dei contemporanei del Nuovo Cinema Tedesco Herzog e Fassbinder. Sebbene la sua reputazione si basi più sul fascino del culto che sull'elevazione allo status di celebrità o all'apprezzamento del culto, si spera e si anticipa che il completamento e il debutto di Blood Countess sia un momento degno di nota nella sua vasta carriera.

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Isabelle Huppert to Star in Ulrike Ottinger's Vampire Movie The Blood Countess. A collaboration between an auteur and an actor that closely resembles last week's pairing of Johnnie To and Tony Leung comes from Variety. They report that Ulrike Ottinger is set to direct Isabelle Huppert in The Blood Countess, a vampire film inspired by the notorious Elizabeth Báthory, with a screenplay co-written by Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher). Lars Eidinger (Irma Vep) will also be involved.