Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)

Here we have a movie about vampires which is not about vampires. The main characters are the husband, Adam, and the wife, Eve, and their relationship far from each other. Lately we have been able to see too many vampires movies (mainly action ones) and yes, we are tired of those....always...the same....movies.... but this one is not one of those, and you should give it an opportunity, cause there is no action at all. The movie is filmed in a dark filter and in a really vampirish style, meaning that it flows slowly but constantly.This movie is more a drama than anything else, about two lovers who are different from the rest, they feed on blood, but who have the same problems as the rest of couples: work related, family related.... About the actors: First, we have Tom Hiddleston (aka Loki), and he is really good! Here he plays the musician vampire, to whom music (besides his wife) is everything in "life". Music is an important issue in this movie, as is culture in general, everything really indie orientated. Secondly, we have Tilda Swinton (aka the bad which from Narnia) really cool too, specially when she is sharing the screen with Tom. You can feel their "vampire" connection. Finally, there is Mia Wasikowska (aka Alice in Wonderland) as the young sister, who also steals the others presence whenever she is on the screen with them.To sum it all up, all the actors and actresses do a good job and make this movie a little indie treasure worth your time. Because...if you were a vampire..... in today's world,.... in today's society.... how would you behave...? Think about it.

I generally liked this movie and consider it a keeper. It's kind of a character study of how some vampires might be like after hundreds and thousands of years. I like that there is almost no supernatural elements, which have bored me with many of the other vampire stories. The only seemingly supernatural element was that one of the vampires could tell how old something is by touching it. That seemed silly. I would have been OK with the pacing but the scenery was often rather dull, such as closed warehouse and commercial buildings. The music was good. I actually learned about some musicians unknown to me. I didn't like some of the name drops of historical figures. Some used unsubstantiated claims about people. The worst slanderous element was the Shakespeare reference. It seemed a bit out of place anyway let alone the "Shakespeare wasn't the author" claim. Overall, I think that the movie was worth watching, especially since it gives up some of the hokier elements of the vampire mythos.

I'm guilty of an overdeveloped sense of nostalgia, and that can blind me to obvious flaws in films that tug at those tender parts of my psyche. While the logical part of me can see that Only Lovers Left Alive lacks some plot movement, character development and plain old common sense, I can't get over the parts I love. The wild aesthetic, the pop culture reference overload, the overly cool Adam and Eve - characters that would have caused a high school aged me overhaul her appearance and stay out of the sun even more than she already did. Jarmusch creates the perfect, delicious world of intense and wise love, cold and aloof passion and all the right literary references - all wrapped up in a killer soundtrack. I love this film. It tugs at all the parts a cool love story should, and it hits all the places a "cool" vampire story should. It might not be for everyone, but it sure is for me.

Director tried to show us vampires from different site. We know them mostly as bloody creatures wanted just to kill, drink blood or makes an army to kill other species. OK but what about Twilight... hehe this is different story and I would not compare Twilight to the stylish movies about vampires. Thanks for the style, for he music, the feeling like time stopped for them. Director focused on a vampires couple which are connected by blood, by love, by music. If you can live forever in that connection you would be the happiest person on earth. But there of course like in life there are some differentiates between them that makes their love more interesting. I would recommend this movie for anyone familiar with vampire movies to have different view on the film and as well for lovers of good music. Piotr