Deus ex cinema — WatchBlog

I just saw Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade: 1915). It is a 7 hour serial, similar to TV show today. The framing was rather dull and some of the plot solution where terrible. But there where also some nice ideas and I liked all the Bond like stuff the bad people used to kill and bluff. I actually think that the “vampires” where way more intelligent than the reporter and it looked like the police had an IQ below room temperature. The script was though often good. I would have loved to see a better director do something with it.

I thought Musidora was very good as Irma Vep but I could not sand Marcel Lévesque in the role of the sidekick Oscar Mazamette. He was constantly explaining (mimicking) to the audience what had just happened, thins that needed no explanation. His overacting can probably be blamed on the director.