Here we have a movie about vampires which is not about vampires. The main characters are the husband, Adam, and the wife, Eve, and their relationship far from each other. Lately we have been able to see too many vampires movies (mainly action ones) and yes, we are tired of those....always...the same....movies.... but this one is not one of those, and you should give it an opportunity, cause there is no action at all. The movie is filmed in a dark filter and in a really vampirish style, meaning that it flows slowly but constantly.This movie is more a drama than anything else, about two lovers who are different from the rest, they feed on blood, but who have the same problems as the rest of couples: work related, family related.... About the actors: First, we have Tom Hiddleston (aka Loki), and he is really good! Here he plays the musician vampire, to whom music (besides his wife) is everything in "life". Music is an important issue in this movie, as is culture in general, everything really indie orientated. Secondly, we have Tilda Swinton (aka the bad which from Narnia) really cool too, specially when she is sharing the screen with Tom. You can feel their "vampire" connection. Finally, there is Mia Wasikowska (aka Alice in Wonderland) as the young sister, who also steals the others presence whenever she is on the screen with them.To sum it all up, all the actors and actresses do a good job and make this movie a little indie treasure worth your time. Because...if you were a vampire..... in today's world,.... in today's society.... how would you behave...? Think about it.

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.

I saw this film in the theater, and I hated it. I love Jarmusch, and I had never seen a film of his I didn't like until this one. So ... I thought I should give it another chance. While my reaction to it isn't as strong on second viewing, I still really don't like it. The vision offered in this film of vampires as some kind of aristocracy with much better taste than your average Joe (taste that very obviously matches Jarmusch's) is really the worst kind of vigorous back-patting. Yeah ... I share his taste ... but that doesn't really matter. No matter how good your taste is, it exhibits really really poor taste to be this proud of yourself for it. Normally, I might forgive a film for this indiscretion, but that's really all there is to it. There's not much else to like here.

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