Francis Ford Coppola
Love Song for a Vampire (Annie Lennox Music Videoclip)

THE REVIEW

Francis Ford Coppola (U.S.A.): music video of "Love Song for a Vampire", Annie Lennox (Gbr) from "Bram Stoker's Dracula O.S.T." (1992) 

Feelings are daily horrors to face but if "hatred is a noble fuel" love is walking in the night, a role play: it hides in the most unexpected places and peeks out, terrible and frightening, right when you wouldn’t want it to. It is the blood from the wound that doesn’t want to heal, and you wouldn’t want it to heal either. One might confuse it with the torch you brought with you but, in reality, you can only see it in the dark: it is something for the fearless, in short, and it is not used to taking prisoners. Prey and predator are the same incarnation and only by using instinct can you choose the role to play: acting without a script.

A domestic monster we cannot renounce and an endless urge to grasp its essence beyond apparent ferocity: we could stay safe in our den among the brambles and bask in our elusiveness but out there, sooner or later, something, whether it be gnashing fangs or a sweet song, will force us out. Inevitable.

We are not given to know if the sequences capturing the "performance" of the beautiful and icy Annie were shot by Coppola (the others, obviously, are moments from the most beautiful "vampire" film in history, Oldman alone in a gray top hat and blue glasses would be enough to confirm it, in which this wonderful song served as the end credits) or by others but I believe that is not so important: it is not the technique that makes this video immortal but the romantic mood and elegance hovering within it.