Nearly two decades after the runaway success of Interview with the Vampire, director Neil Jordan returns to blood-sucking territory, here in the altogether more prosaic setting of the run-down English seaside town which 200-year-old mother and daughter duo Clara and Eleanor have made their latest temporary home. Sex is the means of survival for voluptuous Clara, who promptly befriends local sad sack Noel in order to set up a brothel, while the morose Eleanor finds a kindred sp find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...