A depressed musician reunites with his lover, though their romance - which has already endured several centuries - is disrupted by the arrival of uncontrollable younger sister.
3 April 1991, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
11 March 1989, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
14 October 1989, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
5 November 1960, London, England, UK
7 December 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 February 1981, Westminster, London, England, UK
26 May 1960, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France
March 16, 2017
Jarmusch brings his arthouse sensibilities to the vampire genre, removing the focus from needless stereotypes and finding the humanity in the inhuman.
May 02, 2014
Somehow it's all very entertaining and weird and fitting, with Detroit looking like a place any vampire would be happy to be.
May 01, 2014
You don't so much watch this movie as slink into it, joining an unlikely pair of lovers and enjoying their slouchy elegance.
May 08, 2014
Even vampires get the blues.
May 01, 2014
"Only Lovers Left Alive" breathes new and intriguing life into the vampire genre.
June 18, 2016
Somewhere around the lovely scene of Tilda Swinton dancing, freely and wholeheartedly, to the old soul record, Jarmusch's M.O. becomes clear: 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a hanging-out move, just with vampires.
April 17, 2015
If Jamrusch's comedy is snobby and misty is precisely because vampires should be that way. [full review in Spanish]
February 28, 2017
What resonates is the movie's love story, one which is essentially about a very old, very married couple.
March 08, 2017
Some films are so deeply cool, you feel cool by association just basking in their flickering glow.
April 17, 2015
A great theme and visual compendium. [full review in Spanish]
May 08, 2014
This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above.
April 25, 2014
Only Lovers is so fluidly edited and thinly plotted that it feels almost off-hand; yet, it's also made with great care, beautifully lit and set-designed to an eyelash.
