Thankfully it was sooner.
The Only Lovers Left Alive is the tale of two vampire lovers, centuries, maybe even millennia old, that periodically spend time apart. Tilda Swinton's Eve stays in Tangier while Tom Hiddleston's Adam lives in Detroit.
The movie is arty and actually full of existential dread; what would you do to keep away the crushing sense of thousands and thousands of endless nights?
The cast is fantastic really. We also get Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, and John Hurt.
Though the best really are Swinton and Hiddleston who were born to play vampires. I would want more movies with these characters, but I think we have seen everything we can of them; their curse is to remain the same for all time while the world around them burns.
This one had been one of my early picks for the challenge this year even though it was not on any of my old videotapes (naturally). But one I really wanted to see.
This might one of the best vampire movies I have seen in a very long time.
Note: Backdating this to the night I watched it. I am woefully behind schedule in posting.
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