The popular attention the vampire has enjoyed over the course of the history of film making is inversely proportional to the lack of enthusiasm it has generated among the critics. Nevertheless, the same as western or detective movies, the genre of horror in general and vampires in particular, have always had an unmistakeable authorial category. 

´Filmoteca Canaria´  organises a cycle dedicated to the vampire and its reflexion (who said that vampires have no refexion?)  in the cinema.

EL ANSIA (1983)

Original title: The Hunger

Country: USA

Director: Tony Scott

Screenplay: Ivan Davis & Michal Thomas, based on the novel by Whitley Strieber

Music: Michael Rubini Fotografía: Stephen Goldblatt y Tom Mangravitte

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Willem Dafoe, Beth Ehlers

Duration: 94 minutes Colour VOSE

Synopsis:

Miriam Blaylock collects not only art from the Renaissance era but also pendants from Ancient Egypt; and above all, lovers & souls. Modern & elegant, Miriam is an ageless vampire resident in Manhattan; a woman blessed with beauty yet cursed with her thirst for blood. John is her husband and faithful companion. In love, in life and in nostalgia, they are inseparable. But when John begins to age suddenly and has to go to a specialist for help, Miriam sets her eyes on her as a substitute for John. 

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