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Only Lovers Left Alive (15, 123 mins)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
4 stars
Jim Jarmusch's witty, thoroughly unique vampire tale stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as centuries old vampires trying their best to survive in our modern world.
When we first meet them, she's in North Africa, he's in the States, in the aptly chosen Detroit, a decaying and dying city.
Even though they call humans zombies, and believe that they're destroying the world, they're unwilling to kill and are forced to buy blood.
Blood is the drug and the life, and they go to great lengths to get it.
The dangers of modernity in a world that's consuming itself around them is the backdrop to their ancient love story, one rich with pungent metaphors (they're called Adam and Eve for heaven's sake) and the sorrow and the weight of centuries.
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