July 5, 2014

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714915/

Beautiful to watch in a gruesome kind of way, this vampire love story looks at the modern day challenges of being a vampire - getting food that is "clean", international travel (avoiding day time), boredom due to longevity, maintaining anonymity in a wired world - in a beautiful and occasionally funny way. Their problems are not that different from the rest of us "zombies". There is real chemistry between Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton (who make the most fabulous looking vampires) and the other characters are surprising and entertaining (although Christopher Marlowe was a bit much).

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