This is a 2022 Russian experimental film from Diana Galimzyanova and, as I watched it, I was struck tonally of a comparison with Trasharella, though I’d say that this had less plot but more style, and perhaps even Visions of Suffering, though that may have been the Russian origin and this did have more plot than VoS, just, but was nowhere near as dark.
The plot, such as it is, is that a Gothic Princess (Ekaterina Dar) has a ball of twine (referred to as rope, through the film) stolen by Prince Charming (Anton Medov) and the film sees her attempts to track him down and retrieve it, as she needs the rope to kill herself. The film, I guess, could be a tracking of her personal growth but it is very experimental and deliberately obtuse.
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The mention comes from a moment fairly early on in the film where two vampires (Andrey Sirobaba & Anastasia Popkova) appear, They announce themselves as time travelling vampire detectives (and just to prove they are vampires, he wears a cloak). Why are they travelling back in time? They just give an answer of “some reason”. They have the wisdom, they say, of how to find the rope and then give vague information of a clue given that will lead to a dead end, but there she can find someone with a correct clue – rinse and repeat. When asked if they could just give the rope, they refuse explaining that it is a McGuffin that drives the plot (the fourth wall really doesn’t exist in the film). They give her a small plastic basket she’ll need and then travel back in time to discover how Trolley 54 became a bus (the whereabouts of the trolley/bus is a repeated theme).
And that’s it. A fleeting visitation in a surreal experimental feature, with the use of a cloak triggering the recognition of the megatext – even if they had not stated they were vampires.
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