Set in Tangier and Detroit, Only Lovers Left Alive follows insular yet coolly cultured vampire couple Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), whose love truly stands the test of time. Adam’s growing malaise toward humanity prompts the lovers to reunite, but their plans are soon disrupted. 2013, 35mm, 123 min.
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What can we glean from a vampiric sense of time? Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, screening at the Walker Halloween night, ruminates on the haunting of genius past, while presenting the horror of an unexamined life. Vampires are rendered not as monsters, but keepers of prophetic wisdom. Revisiting the vampire film in context with Jarmusch's most recent zombie horror flick, The Dead Don't Die, a knotted thread of Jarmuschian undead pessimism emerges.
