RIP Claudia from Interview with the Vampire, you would’ve loved to meet Henriette and Louise.Les Deux Orphelines Vampires is my first Jean Rollin, a director very famous for his vampire stories, and not without good reason, because this movie is unlike anything I’ve seen in the genre before. Is the plot a little abstract? Yes, but the film has so much style, beauty and poetry infused into every scene that you can’t help feeling bewitched by its gothic, ethereal world. Henriette and Louise share a bond beyond the realms of life and death, beyond normalcy and convention: their existences are deeply linked, and together they are indeed divine, glorious predators in the ever human search for identity. I mentioned Interview with the Vampire’s Claudia because the two orphan vampires share a lot of similarities with her: even though their origins are never fully disclosed, Henriette and Louise became vampires at a young age and didn’t have much of a human life before, so they don’t feel a sense of kinship with humanity and care only for their own kind (meaning each other), which makes them ruthless. I love the poetic language in this movie’s dialogues, the blue nights and the girls’ attempts to remember their past lives. A scene that stuck with me was the description of the Aztec sacrifice, the frightening innocence of a gruesome scene told by a sweet-looking child. The two actresses playing the vampires, Alexandra Pic and Isabelle Teboul, are hypnotizing, with a fantastic chemistry that always leaves the lines of Louise and Henriette’s relationship blurred, as it should be. Jean Rollin created something pretty unique with Les Deux Orphelines Vampires, and I’m excited to see more of his work.
RIP Claudia from Interview with the Vampire, you would’ve loved to meet Henriette and Louise.Les Deux Orphelines Vampires is my first Jean Rollin, a director very famous for his vampire stories, and not without good reason, because this movie is unlike anything I’ve seen in the genre before. Is the plot a little abstract? Yes, but the film has so much style, beauty and poetry infused into every scene that you can’t help feeling bewitched by its gothic, ethereal world. Henriette and Louise share a bond beyond the realms of life and death, beyond normalcy and convention: their existences are deeply linked, and together they are indeed divine, glorious predators in the ever human search for identity. I mentioned Interview with the Vampire’s Claudia because the two orphan vampires share a lot of similarities with her: even though their origins are never fully disclosed, Henriette and Louise became vampires at a young age and didn’t have much of a human life before, so they don’t feel a sense of kinship with humanity and care only for their own kind (meaning each other), which makes them ruthless. I love the poetic language in this movie’s dialogues, the blue nights and the girls’ attempts to remember their past lives. A scene that stuck with me was the description of the Aztec sacrifice, the frightening innocence of a gruesome scene told by a sweet-looking child. The two actresses playing the vampires, Alexandra Pic and Isabelle Teboul, are hypnotizing, with a fantastic chemistry that always leaves the lines of Louise and Henriette’s relationship blurred, as it should be. Jean Rollin created something pretty unique with Les Deux Orphelines Vampires, and I’m excited to see more of his work.
