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| Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton lounge around and look like lazy artists on this unexciting poster for Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive |
A vampire couple who are several centuries old, and who have long abstained from biting humans, meet up in Detroit, where they dive into their very laid-back and personal rock musician lifestyle.
Only Lovers Left Alive is written and directed by Ohioan master filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Permanent Vacation (1980)), whose 11th feature it is.
It is a relentlessly downbeat and very very quiet slug of a movie; Only Lovers Left Alive snails its way self-indulgently forward. As an audience you'll have to buy into total admiration of the perceived 'hipster coolness' of Tilda Swinton (The Limits of Control (2009)), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers (2012)) and Mia Wasikowska (September (2007)) with troll-like hair (not so cool in my opinion), and also feel that it is really keen that the film celebrates scientists and apparently proposes that major artistic works such as Hamlet were really made by vampire.
Jarmusch invites us along to some interesting locations (Detroit and Tangier), - but this midnight exercise is a yawning killer, and a slow, yawning killer at that.
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Down by Law (1986) - Jarmusch's jailbreak movie is an independent character gem
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 7 mil. $
Box office: 7.6 mil. $
= Huge flop (returned 1.08 times its cost)
[Only Lovers Left Alive premiered 25 May (Cannes Film Festival, main competition) and runs 123 minutes. Gathering funding for the film reportedly took 7 years. 13 companies and support bodies cooperated in its funding and production. Shooting took place from July - September 2012 in Morocco, Germany and in Michigan. The stars wear wigs made of human, yak and goat hair. The film opened #33 to an 87k $ first weekend in 4 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #24 and in 95 theaters (different weeks), grossing 1.8 mil. $ (23.7 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 1.6 mil. $ (21.1 %) and France with 1.3 mil. $ (17.1 %). The film was nominated for 2 Independent Spirit awards, among many other honors. Jarmusch returned with Paterson (2016). Swinton returned in Snowpiercer (2013); Hiddleston in Exhibition (2013). Only Lovers Left Alive is certified fresh at 86 % with a 7.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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