Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

ocelotwreak Only Lovers Left Alive is a love story - actually, several love stories. It's not a standard clichéd vampire horror flick, so best not to judge it by our modern vampire film conventions. In fact, the word "vampire" is never spoken in the film. And if you came for a fast-paced experience, then perhaps it's best to give it a miss. This is a very sensual movie in the sense that it engages and pulls on all your senses. There is no real need to think a lot about what's happening, only feel what is happening! I liked the film's contrast of the sad, reclusive, world-weary Adam who is ready to end it all with a bullet, against the world-loving Eve who dances, voraciously reads all the world's literature and enthusiastically connects with the history of her life in Tangier. How would you or I live the continuing life of the ancient un-dead? Would you embrace everything that life offers you, or retreat and simply watch the collapse of yet another civilization as it crumbles under foot like these film images of Detroit? Director Jim Jarmusch lets the viewer make up their own mind as Adam and Eve navigate the modern and ancient streets of Detroit and Tangier. However, as one other reviewer points out, this is a film "you should definitely watch before making any decisions about becoming a vampire." As the love and chemistry between Eve and Adam (and Christopher) shows, every relationship, even an eternal one, can end or be forever altered by circumstances beyond their knowledge and control. As much as I liked the movie, at the end I was frustrated and wanted more dialog about the endearing and unending love between Adam and Eve, more backstory, more comparison to living in this time of cell phones and blood banks vs living in the ages of literature, disease and war. Then I watched the "Extended and Deleted Scenes" on my BluRay disc and felt totally shocked: here was all the dialog and backstory and extended love scenes and quotes from Rumi that totally filled in what the film could/should have shown us! In fact I initially felt so angry I was motivated to digitize the disc into my video editing software and add all the extended and deleted scenes back into the film so I could see what a full experience of the film would be like, except I don't have that amount of time on my hands (I'm not a vampire). Please watch the Extended and Deleted Scenes (and also the music video Hal by Yasmine Hamdan that was used in the movie and will send shivers up your spine) after you view the movie itself - for me it made all the difference in the world between an ok movie and one that actually delivered the sights, sounds and feelings that I was really expecting from this movie. Why Director Jarmusch deleted all this good stuff and left in the too-long intervals of driving around Detroit is a mystery, or perhaps just another love story he included for himself...

hrkepler By the time 'Only Lovers Left Alive' came out the vampire genre was totally stretched and tried out. Vampires had become mere parody of vampires. It hasn't changed much. But Jim Jarmusch's offbeat addition to the genre felt like fresh breeze and it still feels like that. It's not your regular blood thirsty beasts seeking their pray, no action, no jump scares, no horror.'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a romantic mood film. The wonderful cinematography of the empty streets of midnight Detroit and Tangier together with mesmerizing soundtrack by Jarmusch's own band SQÜRL and Jozef van Wissem creates nice melancholy mood. That is a melancholia in a good way. The plot is paper thin, but it's carried with genius performances by Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston such a way that you don't care much about twists and turns. You just enjoy these two quirky lovers exchange (pop)cultural references with (not in your face like Tarantino does) intelligence. Definitely nice and necessary addition into the old vampire genre. One can say it is most realistic vampire movie ever made. I imagine, if vampires would ever exist, that's how they would behave.

pipin_ferreras As one critic put it, Only Lovers Left Alive is a great guide to being human and living a fulfilling life.Its protagonists, two immortal and endlessly savvy vampires, are trying to find new interest in a world that they think has gone awry. Beautiful night shots show them moving through Detroit and Tangiers, discussing art, historical figures and the meaning of it all.Jarmousch uses this theme to explore a fundamental problem all humans face: How to experience everything in life when you only live once? He makes the case that even these immortal vampires end up facing pretty much the same problems, such as boredom, inability to connect, apathy and disappointment, as the rest of the species seems more and more awful to them.For Jarmousch and his characters, love and art are the ultimate antidotes to this problem, as they return to it again and again in order to find new meaning and a reason to carry on.One would assume that a film with such a theme would very easily sway into pretense, but not so in the hands of this uber-cool director. Definitely one of the best movies of this decade.

Smoreni Zmaj Jarmusch, inviolable master of slow psychedelic movies. If you do not like slow movies do not even try to watch this, cause there's virtually no plot at all. Movie is based on characterization of protagonists, building of heavy atmosphere and it is visually fantastic. Although it technically falls within vampire/fantasy genre, movie does not have any of it's characteristics. Tilda and Tom for two hours became old married couple of vampires that will make you forget that vampires are just the fruit of the imagination and experience this movie as exceptionally realistic drama. Of course, Jarmusch wouldn't be Jarmusch if great psychedelic music didn't follow whole story. I saw Jim's opus long time ago, but if my memory does not deceive me, only Dead Man is better than this one.8,5/10