Only Lovers Left Alive
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| Directed by | Jim Jarmusch |
| Produced by |
Jeremy Thomas Reinhard Brundig |
| Written by | Jim Jarmusch |
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Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Mia Wasikowska Anton Yelchin Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi John Hurt |
| Music by | Jozef van Wissem, Yasmine Hamdan, SQÜRL |
| Cinematography | Yorick Le Saux |
| Edited by | Affonso Gonçalves |
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Soda Pictures (United Kingdom) Pandora Film Verleih (Germany) |
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123 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $7.6 million |
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 internationally co-produced vampire film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi, and John Hurt. A co-production of the United Kingdom and Germany, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Married for centuries and now living half a world apart, two vampires wake as the sun goes down. Adam sits holding a lute, in his cluttered Detroit Victorian, as Eve wakes up in her bedroom in Tangier, surrounded by books. Rather than feeding on humans, they are like addicts, dependent on local suppliers of the "good stuff"; fearing contamination from blood poisoned by the degradation of the environment. Adam visits a local blood bank in the dead of night, masquerading as "Dr. Faust", paying "Dr. Watson" for his coveted O negative, while Eve relies on their old friend Christopher Marlowe, who faked his death in 1593 and now lives under the protection of a local man.
After influencing the careers of countless famous musicians and scientists, Adam has become withdrawn and suicidal. His desire to connect through his music is at odds with the danger of recognition as well as his contempt for the corrupt and foolish humans he refers to as "zombies." He spends his days recording his compositions on outdated studio equipment and lamenting the state of the modern world whilst collecting vintage instruments. He pays Ian, a naive human "rock and roll kid," to procure vintage guitars and other assorted curiosities, including a custom-made, wooden bullet with a brass casing. Having acquired substantial scientific knowledge over the years, the vampire has managed to build contraptions to power both his home and vintage sports car with technology originally pioneered by Nikola Tesla. His reclusive nature adds to his mystique as a musician and composer, and he is horrified when some intrepid fans turn up on his doorstep. Ian promises to discreetly spread rumors about Adam living elsewhere to draw them away.
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