Director: Jim Jarmusch; Screenwriter: Jim Jarmusch; Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Right; Running time: 123 mins; Certificate: 15
One of cinema's most defiant rebels jumps on the vampire bandwagon, but never fear: he hasn't gone all the way to the dark side. Writer/director Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes) casts Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as the bloodsuckers trying to fill their time after so many centuries, like a couple of urban slackers doomed to faff for eternity.
Killing isn't much of a kick, either. Instead, they get their O-negative on the black market, though Hiddleston (best known as Loki in the Thor franchise) has a bit of fun as Adam, drifting through hospital corridors with an incongruous stethoscope and sunglasses, creeping out the doctor who supplies him. He makes a living (so to speak) as a cult rock musician, but he's had...
One of cinema's most defiant rebels jumps on the vampire bandwagon, but never fear: he hasn't gone all the way to the dark side. Writer/director Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes) casts Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as the bloodsuckers trying to fill their time after so many centuries, like a couple of urban slackers doomed to faff for eternity.
Killing isn't much of a kick, either. Instead, they get their O-negative on the black market, though Hiddleston (best known as Loki in the Thor franchise) has a bit of fun as Adam, drifting through hospital corridors with an incongruous stethoscope and sunglasses, creeping out the doctor who supplies him. He makes a living (so to speak) as a cult rock musician, but he's had...
- 2/18/2014
- Digital Spy
The vampire genre has been so overdone and beaten to a bloody pulp (no pun intended) that a mere utterance of the fanged creatures prompts groans and eye-rolls. However, the latest movie from indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch looks to reverse that trend with one of the smartest, most original takes on the nightwalkers yet.
"Only Lovers Left Alive," which plays at the New York Film Festival this week, stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as trendy, designer-wearing vampires. Hiddleston's Adam is a famous underground rock musician living in Detroit, while his centuries-long lover Eve (Swinton) lives in her home in Tangier. After years of separation she decides to visit him, only for her bratty younger sister (Mia Wasikowska) to show up and cause problems.
What makes Jarmusch's film truly unique is that his characters aren't simply blood-lusting nobodies, but significant figures of human history. We learn that Adam was good...
"Only Lovers Left Alive," which plays at the New York Film Festival this week, stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as trendy, designer-wearing vampires. Hiddleston's Adam is a famous underground rock musician living in Detroit, while his centuries-long lover Eve (Swinton) lives in her home in Tangier. After years of separation she decides to visit him, only for her bratty younger sister (Mia Wasikowska) to show up and cause problems.
What makes Jarmusch's film truly unique is that his characters aren't simply blood-lusting nobodies, but significant figures of human history. We learn that Adam was good...
- 10/9/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
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