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Apr 11, 2014 · Pasty pin-up boy Edward Cullen and his undead clan can’t compete with the fabulously aloof and effortlessly cool creatures of the night lurking in Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive”. They don’t need the sun to sparkle.
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Worth watching for Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton's performances alone, Only Lovers Left Alive finds writer-director Jim Jarmusch adding a typically offbeat entry to the vampire genre.
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- Jim Jarmusch
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- Tilda Swinton
With Jamusch's deadpan humor abound, Only Lovers Left Alive is a beautiful, funny, playful pun at vampire genre and also a poignant contemplation on long term relationship.
- A Low-Key Vampire Flick
- Verdict
By Chris Tilly
Updated: Feb 14, 2014 2:29 pm
Posted: Oct 20, 2013 4:30 pm
It seems to be a rite of passage for directors to make a vampire movie these days, with filmmakers as talented and diverse as Neil Jordan, Catherine Hardwicke and Chan-wook Park all having a crack at the genre in recent years. And now it’s the turn of indie darling Jim Jarmusch, the man who messed with western conventions in Dead Man and who made one of the most surreal action films of all-time in the shape of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Here he tells the tale of two ancient vampires called Adam and Eve (geddit?), whose passionate love affair has lasted centuries, the couple trotting the globe in search of culture and blood.
But we meet them in the present day when the pair are taking a brief break from each other. Eve (Tilda Swinton) is swanning around Tangier drinking in music, literature and bottles of the red stuff – she’s a sophisticate after all – which she procures from Christopher Malowe. Yes that Christopher Marlowe.
Which makes Only Lovers Left Alive fine if you are looking for style over substance, but a disappointment if you're after a story that delves a little deeper.
- Chris Tilly
Only Lovers Left Alive: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska. A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Jim Jarmusch
- 2013-12-25
In the abandoned Detroit, the depressed musician Adam (Tom Hiddleston) lives in an old house in the middle of derelict buildings with his musical instruments and books. Adam has been a vampire for centuries but is tired with the fate of the world taken by wrong decisions of mankind.
Apr 11, 2014 · Adam, a reclusive underground musician hiding out in the ruins of contemporary Detroit, despairs about human civilization’s decline, and worries about future survival. Eve, who is perhaps 3000 years old to Adam’s 500, takes a longer view of history and is more optimistic.
