The encounter between two legendary European cultural icons - Casanova and Count Dracula - is a confrontation between 18th-century Rationalism and 19th-century Romanticism, between unbridled intellectual hedonism and the dark attractiveness of bloodthirstiness; it is a clash between control and surrender, between profanity and holiness. In Albert Serra’s eccentric costume drama with a cast of non-professional actors, we see Casanova take on a new servant in Switzerland and leave for a primitive idyllic village ‘south of the Carpathians'.
In his typical, idiosyncratic manner, Serra introduced the concept of ‘unfuckable’: not only as a critical illustration of his creative process, but also to describe the final product.
You can embrace the film or reject it, but the painterly film itself remains what it is; as if it were the result of the same process of alchemy seen in the film: creating gold from excrement. Winner of the Golden Leopard in Locarno.
- Director
- Albert Serra
- Countries of production
- Spain, France
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 148'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Història de la meva mort
- Language
- Catalan
- Producer
- Montse Triola
- Production Company
- Andergraun Films
- Sales
- Capricci Films
- Screenplay
- Albert Serra
- Cinematography
- Jimmy Gimferrer
- Editor
- Albert Serra
- Production Design
- Mihnea Mihailescu, Sebastian Vogler
- Sound Design
- Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
- Music
- Ferran Font, Marc Verdaguer, Joe Robinson, Enric Juncà
- Cast
- Lluis Carbó, Eliseu Huertas, Montse Triola, Lluis Serrat
- Website
- http://capricci.fr/histoire-mort-2013-albert-serra-233.html