El Conde

Presented in beautiful black and white, this Chilean Vampire comedy is an odd-duck. Sometimes Farrelly/Zucker Brothers absurd, and sometimes grey and gloomy in a Woody Allen way. I’m happy this was made, and the filmmaker’s SEEM to have had carte blanche to produce this romantic-comedy horror outlier. It’s probably an allegory for something political in Chili that I don’t quite get, as it skates the line between vampire and satire. But it’s original, you gotta give it that.