How strange that Focus has formally set up for Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” to screen at the Leipzig Film Festival on September 17. That’s what a user on X noticed when they flipped through the festival program. It’s skipping all of the fall fests, but going to Leipzig? The screening is said to be a private industry event.
The runtime for “Nosferatu,” which doesn’t come out until late December, has also been confirmed to be 132 minutes. A trailer for “Nosferatu” was released in June, it carried along with it Eggers’ very distinct visual style; long, elaborate shot structures presented in authentic, time-period specific, attention to detail.
“Nosferatu” stars Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, a woman whose soul is seduced by the vampire (Skarsgård) while her husband Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) fights to save her. The look of the film is fast becoming just as interesting as the story itself.
“Nosferatu” was, technically speaking, shot in color by DP Jarin Blaschke, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism. In fact, an entirely new filter was engineered just for this film, which is also said to have an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
Nobody expected a 55-year-old NC-17 movie to be one of the surprise box office stories of the fall. Yet here we are, and this absolutely puts a smile on my face.