Only Lovers Left Alive

Jim Jarmusch
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Director Jim Jarmusch and actors Tilda Swinton and Jeffrey Wright in person on October 10!

Jim Jarmusch’s wry, tender and moving take on the vampire genre features Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a centuries-old couple who watch time go by from multiple continents as they reflect on the ever-changing world around them.

DIRECTOR
Jim Jarmusch
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
123 minutes
LANGUAGE
English
START DATE
October 10, 2013

Director Jim Jarmusch and actors Tilda Swinton and Jeffrey Wright in person on October 10!

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston make a dashing and very literal first couple—centuries-old lovers Eve and Adam—in Jim Jarmusch’s wry, tender take on the vampire genre. When we first meet the pair, he’s making rock music in Detroit while she’s hanging out with an equally ageless Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt) in Tangiers. (Long-distance spells aren’t such a big deal when you’ve been together throughout hundreds of years.) Between sips of untainted hospital-donated blood, they struggle with depression and an ever-changing world, reflect on their favorite humans (Buster Keaton, Albert Einstein, Jack White) and watch time go by, each finding stability in the other. A Sony Pictures Classics release.

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