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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Posted By: Efgrapha

Date: 26 Aug 2014 17:22:46

Noted indie director Jim Jarmusch directs the vampire story Only Lovers Left Alive. Tom Hiddleston stars as Adam, a bloodsucker who makes a living as a reclusive musician in Detroit. He reunites with the love of his life, Eve (Tilda Swinton), a fellow vampire who leaves her home overseas to be with him in the downtrodden Motor City. They eventually get a visit from Eve's irresponsible sister (Mia Wasikowska), who irritates Adam and eventually causes trouble with the one human – the vampires refer to the living as zombies – with whom the depressed music hero gets along. Only Lovers Left Alive screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Synopsis by Perry Seibert, Allmovie.com

If Jim Jarmusch’s languorous, laconic style isn’t your bag, his stone-faced vampire comedy won’t make you a believer. Those who’ve already been bitten, however, will swoon like the film’s toothy leads whenever their lips touch neck juice. First is Adam (Tom Hiddleston), a depressive bloodsucker living clandestinely in Detroit. He’s a musician by trade (there was that time he wrote an adagio for Schubert) and he has a halfhearted longing to commit suicide because the world has been taken over by “zombies” (a.k.a. humans). His long-distance love is the unearthly Eve (Tilda Swinton), who slinks assuredly around Tangier and—since she considers chomping on Homo sapiens a low-class remnant of the Middle Ages—procures high-grade hemoglobin from fellow vamp Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt).

Yes, that Christopher Marlowe, the 16th-century dramatist who, in the movie’s logic, may have written all of Shakespeare’s plays. Plenty of viewers are sure to be annoyed by Jarmusch’s steady stream of hepcat and/or high-culture references (prepare to hear that go-to pejorative, hipster, bandied about). But it’s the way this singular writer-director contextualizes his ocean of allusions that makes all the difference: On Adam’s wall are photographs of a privileged few “zombie” inspirations like Buster Keaton, Albert Einstein and—finally getting some respect—Rodney Dangerfield. Eve, meanwhile, embraces the new, FaceTiming with Adam on her iPhone 5 and—after she joins her ages-old lover in Motor City—paying homage at the childhood home of Jack White.

All culture has the potential to be beautiful; what irks this duo is the lack of acknowledgment that such sublimity exists. In the modern world, curiosity and sophistication are disposable concepts—expendable like the corpse that Eve’s thirsty vamp sibling, Ava (Mia Wasikowska), leaves behind with I-couldn’t-resist shamelessness. Jarmusch has created a requiem for a way of looking at life that is being increasingly relegated to the shadows. Yet it’s the kind of dirge that, perversely and profoundly, sends you back out into a volatile world with a glad-to-be-alive high.

Review by Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

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Director: Jim Jarmusch

Writers: Jim Jarmusch

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright and other