Kirsten Dunst - Interview With a Vampire – The Vampire's Wife

Kirsten Dunst

We love the film Interview With a Vampire for its sheer sensuality and decadent, sumptuous sets and the doomed beauty of the Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise characters, but it was Kirsten Dunst’s performance of Claudia, the little crazed Vampire girl that stole the show. Having said that it is really the role of Justine in Lars Von Trier’s amazing Melancholia, where Kirsten Dunst turns in one of the most memorable and compelling performances of a woman thrown to the edges of sanity we have ever seen. I don’t think I can count the amount of times I’ve have watched Melancholia, which is a little strange, because I am usually a romantic comedy kind of gal. Love, Susie x

Kirsten Dunst

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.

TIME AFTER TIME, LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT

Look at this heart-breaking piece of film of Little Jimmy Scott singing Time After Time and giving his thoughts on what a song is meant to be. He is a vast talent and a beautiful man; we met him at my husband’s Meltdown Festival in London in 1999.

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE

I heard this wonderful version of The Smiths classic song "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the brilliantly ebullient Dum Dum Girls on the DJ Lonny’s amazing Cover to Cover on Radio Lewes this week. What a great show! What a superb song! What a joyful cover! ‘To die by your side is pleasure and a privilege’ indeed!