This film seemed to have all the ingredients to delight me, and indeed it did. Long in short, it's a film about a group of hyper attractive wealthy female vampires (with a nice touch of femme fatales) living/partying/killing/feeding in modern day Berlin.
Actually, there's much more to this film that just that. The plot turns around a troublesome young woman that gets turned into a vampire and how she copes with her new condition. The story confronts us with some "phylosophical" issues recurrent to most decent vampire films: immortality, loneliness, doubt, despair and emptiness after seeing your loved ones die (this one is brilliantly depicted here when one 20 something vampire sees die an 80 something woman that happpens to be the child she had had before been turned into a vampire), fear to destroy those you love... It's quite interesting to see how differently these vampires live their current condition, the "master", the one that turned the others, seems happy, but obsessed seeking a missing love, another one, turned a few years ago, is still really excited about the marvels of immortality and is living her new life at its most, and finally, we have the depressed type, one that can't seem to cope with the death of all those she loved and the impossibility to establish links with anyone outside of their circle.
The film is set on modern day Berlin, probably my favorite place in the world, and there are tons of those views I so much love of this city (the omnipresent TV tower, the elevated Bahn stations, the street art everywhere, the plattenbau). Part of the action takes place in one location also used in the recent film Hanna, the abandoned Spreepark, and the final scenes are set on Teufelsberg one place to which I have a visit pending for my next escape to Berlin.
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