Vampire Week
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Bauhaus is performing Bela Lugosis Dead, and everything is glowing blue and cloaked in shadows.
Strobe lights shrink into the reflections of their sunglasses.
The pair spots a couple dancing together, and all they have to do is wave.
They look a little less polished than before and a lot more vulnerable.
The Hungerwas Tony Scotts feature-film debut after 15 years of making commercials for his brother Ridley Scotts production outfit.
Reviewers decried its slickness but never failed to make note of its incredible sense of style.
The wordvampireis never uttered in the film, so every little thing hinges onknowing it when you see it.
(Deneuve was outfitted by friend and collaborator Yves Saint Laurent.)
Everything feels apparent in the films knowing, supernatural sense of chic.
The plot unfurls in details, from costume and make-up to production design and performance.
Bowie does a lot with his limited screen time, and Johns decay is wonderfully grotesque.
He hesitates to draw his blade in a mens restroom.
He tries to kill a roller skater in Central Park but only manages to cut him.
As his youth slips away, so does his power.
But its too late.
The next time Sarah shows up on that doorstep, she doesnt really know why shes there.
This is real, isnt it?
Youve got so many beautiful things, Sarah says.
Most of it comes from my family, Miriam replies.
The two women talk over glasses of sherry.
Sarah is in a blazer and a plain white T-shirt.
At some point, Sarah takes the blazer off.
Miriam sits at the piano and plays the Flower Duet from Leo DelibessLakme.
Bluish light beams through the sheer curtains and bounces off her jewelry.
It gives her a cold, glimmering aura.
Sarah asks Miriam what she does in her leisure time.
Her look is emblematic of the increasingly casual 80s.
Her fantasies are those of the proto-yuppie who is not quite there yet but definitely on her way.
(I think a lot aboutan interview with the vampiric designer Rick Owensin the March 2002 issue ofDM Magazine.
When asked about the persistent allure of vampires, he responds: Well, we know its about sex.
The idea of devouring, consuming, possessing someone we desire.)
Miriam gives Sarah the gift-curse of everlasting life in the process.
She stares at women swimming in the adjacent buildings pool.
She orders a rare steak but cant eat a single bite.
And shes wearing an ankh pendant of her own.
You just met her, and she gives you a present?
Shes that kind of a woman.
At night, Sarah is restlessly, ravenously hungry and vomits nonstop.
When Sarah asks whos winning, she doesnt get a response.
A furious Sarah storms over to Miriams building clammy-skinned and slightly delirious in a weakly billowing trench coat.
Miriam is honest about her gift: The second strain of blood is hers.
You belong to me.
We belong to each other, Miriam says, as she has repeatedly for centuries.
Sarah flees, but experiencing a supernatural withdrawal, she soon returns, sweating through her clothing.
She must get used to the role of Miriams lover.
Soon you will forget what you were, Miriam says.
Fashion loves vampires, and vampires love fashion.
