Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning It centres in on a cold truth: mutual loneliness is a dark, dangerous footing for love, but sometimes that is the best that we can find. Then there’s the remarkably reductive 2010 US remake, Let Me In two separate play scripts a comic prequel series denounced by Lindqvist and, this year, a Showtime television series.īut Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production is among the right ones, a faithful adaptation (using Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playwright Jack Thorne’s script) that is charming and disturbing in equal measure. Written by Lindqvist and directed by the film-maker Tomas Alfredson, it’s an eerie, tender watch, where love and murder are committed to warm the soul against the relentless Stockholm frost: the late film critic Roger Ebert lauded it as “the best modern vampire movie”.
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