This 2025 movie, directed by Laméo Flores, is not a vampire movie. However its presence on TMtV may become more understandable when I point out that the original French title is Dracula est amoureux. It is a well-crafted, well written and well-acted drama, a bitter-sweet portrayal of the aftermath of a relationship and the impact of trauma on the lives of the sufferers of the trauma and those who love them.
The opening sees Anatole (Roman Freud) in a doctor’s waiting room with boyfriend Liam (Lyad Smain). Anatole has an ear infection and is exasperated with Liam (who has googled a homemade earache cure consisting of onion juice). They reference a painting that seems out of place in a doctor’s waiting room but we don’t see it until the end of a scene – it is a bat and there is later another clear bat motif (although as much of the film takes place at a Halloween party, that isn’t too unexpected). Anatole is called through to the doctor, Liam says he loves him but Anatole doesn’t reciprocate.
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Three months later and they have split and Anatole has ghosted Liam. Liam is getting ready for a Halloween party – a private, invite only party he intends to crash because he knows Anatole will be attending. He dresses as Dracula – and this is the reason for the mention as he maintains this outfit for the film, so acting as a vampire. At the party, he manages to get in by posing as the cousin of one of the attendees, Victor (Léonard Chouin), but is sussed by a young woman who blackmails him into sitting her young brother, Gabriel (Nathan Haggege) who is dressed as a ghost – whilst she goes off elsewhere.
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The film follows the pair bonding as they try to find Anatole (Liam forgot that he’d be in fancy dress also) and moments within the film take Liam out of the present and show us moments from their relationship, which builds a picture of the reason their love was ill-fated. When he does eventually find Anatole, he is dressed as Frankenstein’s Monster and there is a line suggesting that the Monster and Dracula being together does not exist in any tale. Absolutely brilliantly paced, this gets on here by dint of a costume but is a very watchable tragic love story.
The imdb page is here.
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On Demand @ Amazon UK
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