What Is It?
The 2013 fantasy comedy-drama romance movie Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch.
This is how Metacritic describes this movie:
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, John Hurt, Mia Wasikowska, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston
Summary: Adam and Eve have been lovers for centuries.
Both are cultured intellectuals with an all-embracing passion for music, literature and science, who have evolved to a level where they no longer kill for sustenance, but still retain their innate wildness.
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.
She leaves her home in the ancient city of Tangier to come to his side.
As blood has been tainted by the zombies (humans), the formerly immortal Adam and Eve must secure uncontaminated blood from hospitals, or they will perish.
Eve’s close friend, Christopher Marlowe, is an elder vampire who provides Eve with hospital blood.
Adam gets his supply from Dr. Watson, a skittish hematologist who provides safe blood at a price.
Adam and Eve’s precarious footing is further threatened by the uninvited arrival of Eve’s carefree and uncontrollable little sister, Ava.
Unlike Adam and Eve, Ava hasn’t yet learned to tame her wilder instincts, and her recklessness concerns Adam.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Romance
Rating: R
Runtime: 123 min
Here is how Wikipedia describes this movie:
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John Hurt.
An international co-production of the United Kingdom and Germany, the film focuses on the romance between two vampires, and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2016, the film was ranked among the BBC’s 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century by 177 critics around the world.[5]
In late 2019, it was named the fourth-greatest film of the 2010s by The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic Todd McCarthy.[6]
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