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.”

In “Dracula,” crammed with “sex scenes and sex jokes,” Jude combines multiple storylines. But whether he’s following bloodthirsty tourists in Transylvania, eager to drive a stake through a stranger’s heart, workers on strike facing an ar

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