2013 Directed by Jim Jarmusch
After being around for centuries and now living in the modern age, vampire Adam is a rockstar that cannot grow accustomed to the new modern world with all of its new technology. While he lives in Detroit, his wife Eve lives in Tangier, flourishing in the new world. But when she senses Adam's depression with society, she gets on a plane and goes to see him. Shortly after Eve gets there, her little sister, Ava, shows up after 87 years and disrupts the couple's idyll reunion.
Jeremy Thomas Reinhard Brundig Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Jean Labadie Stacey E. Smith Bart Walker Peter Watson
Pandora Film Neue Road Movies ARD/Degeto Film GmbH Recorded Picture Company (RPC) Snow Wolf Produktion Lago Film Faliro House Productions
Jim Jarmusch’s latest may feature some familiar vampire iconography, whether it be the pallid anti-heroes or their thirst for blood, but Only Lovers Left Alive is as much a lament for the death of art and culture as it is about a centuries old love story. It is also the director’s best film in years, a haunting and hypnotic mood piece less interested in clever plotting and more about its heady nocturnal atmosphere.
Tom Hiddleston stars as Adam, a vampire sinking into a melancholic and existential funk, who is stranded in a decaying and abandoned Detroit whilst left alone to create symphonic drone music. He is reunited with Eve (Tilda Swinton), his centuries old lover who is still aware of…
TIFF 2013 – film #3
Reason for pick: director Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton, my wife’s love of all things Vampire.
It was a rainy day. Literally. Standing in line at the Bloor Cinema with the clouds wide open was really starting to affect my normally bright and cheery mood. Granted, this was a Jim Jarmusch film, but I really only know him by reputation, as I’d only seen Down by Law, and Broken Flowers. There was the Tilda Swinton factor. Love her. I couldn’t think of a bad film she was in until our friend Len reminded me of I Am Love. Hated that one. The real reason I’m here, standing in the rain, is my wife’s love of Vampire…
The wealth of knowledge vampires must amass after thousands of years is fully realized in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive. Even though most vampire films have explored the longevity of the immortal, we very rarely see them reminisce about Nikola Tesla, the Spanish inquisition or Charlie Feathers' music. They adapt, survive, evolve, dance, read, make music, and most importantly - they love.
Adam is a wistful poet, secluded in his decrepit house in Detroit where he spends most of his time writing funeral music and contemplating suicide. His wife, Eve, lives in Tangiers, surrounded by books in various languages with only enough space in the middle of her floor to dance. Their interests may be different but they respectfully…
“How could you have lived so long and still not get it?”
Jim Jarmusch brings a fresh spin to the very familiar vampire tale and delivers a solid and unique film that is unlike any other from the genre. Only Lovers Left Alive will stand alone considering it lacks the horror and action elements that the classic vampire films always introduce, and it also avoids the romantic cliches as well. It is an existential vampire film where you have two very distinct characters. On the one hand there is Tom Hiddleston’s character who has been around for centuries and is living in Detroit along with his growing music collection. He has grown weary with the way humans (or as he…
Love the style and thoughtful pace! Characters were inviting enough! But it lacked the "IT" factor!
"IT" factor being that thing that makes it memorable! Makes you long for a sequel! The thing that pushes a film beyond the ranks of the mediocre!
Considering the talent and theme involved I was taken aback by the storylines lack of ambition!
Ihan uskomaton tunnelma tässä elokuvassa. Roolituskin on osunut kohdalleen. Hiddleston ja Swinton vakuuttavat vanhoina vampyyreina.
Only Lovers Left Alive ist "voll". Sowohl visuell, als auch in der Menge der Themen die er anspricht. Die Kulissen sind von oben bis unten vollgestopft, überall ist etwas.
Wer sich von der Atmosphere in den ersten 15 Minuten aber nicht einfangen lässt wird am Rest des Film keinen Spaß haben, denn die Handlung wirkt recht dünn und zu großen Teilen Ziellos.
Beautifully serene. I love that this film focuses more on the immortality aspect of vampirism. Fantastic coincidence that we're reading Hamlet for literature class and they were quoting Hamlet, too. Only thing to complain about would be the lack of events for a two-hour movie. Still beautiful though.
Ç donne envie d'être un vampire, juste pour pouvoir lire autant de livres que Eve.
Let me start this review by saying that Adam just became my favorite character in all of cinema history, and I don't even like vampires!
This movie is an amazing journey through love and blood.
Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are superb in this movie, they are the heart and soul of this movie, and I absolutely loved them.
The directing is good and the photography work amazing.
Now we go to the good part: the soundtrack. This is the skin, the skeleton of the movie, and we move at the tempo of the soundtrack, with smooth transitions and perfect timing, the soundtrack makes you invest your full attention to the screen, as if nothing else exists during the the…
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