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It is hard to believe that after 100 years of vampires in the cinema, there would be anything left to say on the subject. But then comes a surprise out of Sweden that brings a fresh angle to the genre.
Let the Right One In features an introverted boy, Oskar, who makes friends with an odd young girl, Eli, who has just moved into his apartment building with her father. Oskar doesn’t understand why Eli never goes to school, never gets cold and has blood under her fingernails. And her supposed father is making strange, late-night walks while carrying a toolkit.
A film of extraordinary mood and wildly inventive directorial potency. It’s a hushed, gentle story of provisional friendship, the ordeal of adolescence, and the curse of vampiric immortality. A hypnotic from beginning to end, “Right One” is a marvel: an ingenious genre film that manages to terrify and endear in the same instant, deftly erecting one of the most persuasive, haunting film experiences of the year. The film plays like a lullaby by the Brothers Grimm.
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Sweden / 2008 / 114 mins / Director: Tomas Alfredson / Cert: 15 / Momentum Pictures
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