Nadja

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Okay, it's done. Lots of slo mo. Lots of disjointed statements. Post. Perhaps the best part of the movie is Fonda's </B><B>tour de force </B><B>a</B><B>ging hippie Van Helsing.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A woman tells how there's nothing to eat in europe after 10:00--here in NY, things get more lively after midnight. She says her father is a bastard--family money from Rumania--based on exploitation. The man who she was telling to is the meal--sometime aftr midnight. Not only is this in black and white, but the picture is extra grainy. She has a vision--her father is dead. Jim is doing some sparring and he hears from his wife that his uncle has killed a man with a stake in the heart. Nadja shows up for Dracula's body. Jim's uncle (Fonda), fiftyish with long stringy hair says Dracula was drugged and confused--like Elvis in the end--the magic was gone. Uncle says if the body is not destroyed correctly, he'll be back. Nadja is feeling her oats with daddy gone, and goes out dancing and wandering the streets. Nadja shows up at a bar, apparently quite able to drink, and Jim's wife is there, asking her if she has a cigarette--and a rap ensues. Nadja explains that she is going to see her brother who she hasn't seen for years. Jim's wife explains her brother had killed herself at 21, and didn't know enough to do so. Nadja disagrees. Jim's wife explains about being born again. Uncle explains to Jim that the fiend has had hundreds of children--raving idiots blending into the cities. Uncle explains that he had been in love once two hundred years before. She died in childbirth, leaving behind twins--a son and a daughter. Jim's wife returns to the apartment with Nadja, and says he's out drinking with the demented uncle. Nadja takes out a trantula (Bela) and holds it. Lucy is impressed. Lucy puts on a wierd screaming head ornament on the christmas tree, and Nadja is disturbed for a moment. They do polaroids and sparklers and a lesbian scene. Later, Nadja returns to her brother and tells him she is in love--the first time she's been interested in a woman in a long time. She is immersed in water, where she apparently spends the day. Jim returns home to find the Chrismas tree toppled. He has brought new flowers. Lucy is curled up in a corner, and doesn't feel well. She begins bleeding from nose and genitals. Later, uncle Van Helsing is at the door insisting to be let in. The body has disappeared. He says the guard blacked out, and that the children have picked up the body. Lucy is unimpressed with uncle Von Helsing. She heads off to work. Von Helsing insists that Jim help him find the children. Von Helsing holds forth--admitting he had been in love with Jim's slightly crazy mother (now deceased). He then tells Jim that his father had not been his father. He then inadvertently goes crazy and kills Lucy's tarantula. Rennfield (Nadja's slave) and Nadja show up at Edgar's (her brother's) place where he lies ill. They have brought Dracula's ashes. Meanwhile, Jim finds the polaroids from the night before. Von Helsing realizes that there's no reflection in the photographs where there should be. The woman is Edgar's friend. Nadja recounts how she had once been forced by her brother to eat bread with lots of butter on it (to be strong)--she hates her father for it. Nadja tells the nurse that there are plasma supplements that will save Edgar. Jim and Von Helsing have confronted Lucy about the polaroids. Nadja tells the nurse that her whole family has an allergy to sunlight. Jim tells Lucy about his anomie. She recounts some Nadja-isms of the night before, and rather than kissing she tosses him across the room. Vampirism. Von Helsing tries to stop her before she gets on a taxi, but she is too quick. He hops on his three speed and Jim trudges along with him. Nadja tells the nurse that the plasma comes from mexican shark embryos. Edgar says he wants to die in Rumanian, and wants to get out, but Nadja lies to the nurse, saying that he's feeling better. He tries to get her to look in his eyes. Nadja tells him "dad's dead". Nadja says Cassandra, the nurse, is wonderful. Rennfield advises Cassandra to leave, and offers her some medicine. In the other room, Nadja opens her wrist and lets blood drop into Edgar's mouth. Von Helsing and Jim manage to catch up with Lucy as she arrives at the vampire house. Lucy is, in a trance. Von Helsing puts on glasses, and Jim can see Lucy's reflection in them--she's not entirely turned. Von Helsing goes at Rennfield with a stake, but he disappears as he swings. It turns out that Casandra is also a niece of Von Helsing's. Von Helsing is not convinced that Casandra is really there--he thinks she is a shape shifter. Lucy dances with Nadja as a music video breaks out. Odd decision. Nadja admits she has done something to her. Von Helsing makes an attempt at Nadja. Lucy calmly goes over and strangles Jim--but doesn't kill him. Cassandra finally flees out into the street, and Nadja floats after her to off beat music. Things get extra film noir. Cassandra ends up in a motor garage. Nadja has pursued her, and she gives the evil eye to the mechanics, killing them. A policeman arrives on the scene and sees what is happening and shoots Nadja, no doubt to little avail. Von Helsing is awakened by Edgar, who is now fully revived, and quite civilized. Lucy is still in a trance. Jim goes on about how she's been depressed. Lucy holds forth on what she has eaten in the last days. Edgar admits he is getting a telepathic transmission from Nadja, admitting she has lost a good deal of blood, and that she is heading back to Rumania. Cassandra is with her. Edgar admits he loves Cassandra. The group heads off to Transylvania. They arrive to howling wolves and crumbling castles. Nadja stalks about with Rennfield in an empty castle.Talking about the drawbacks of too many choices in America. Cassandra now holds forth on the loss of contact with God. Rennfield spots the others arriving with a boat and aims a rifle out the window. Rennfield taks some shops and clips Von Helsing on the hand. While Rennfield reloads, Cassandra strikes him. Nadja comes along and Cassandra hits her, to no avail except to knock off her wig. Von Helsing says blood is like chewing gum to these creatures. Nadja sets up a transfusion with Cassandra. Lucy says she wonders if having a baby will help. Edgar says Nadja is leading them into a trap. Jim and Lucy scuffle with Rennfield as they arrive at the site of the transfusion. Nadja only stares up at them. The first blow with the hammer fails, but then they drive the stake into Nadja. Rennfield has also been staked. The question is, what is the story with Cassandra. She announces that she's thirsty. The monologue is that Nadja has taken over Cassandra's body. She marries Edgar.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>