DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Jim Jarmusch
PRODUCERS: Jeremy Thomas, Reinhard Brundig
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yorick Le Saux
EDITOR: Affonso Gonçalves
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Marco Bittner Rosser
COSTUME DESIGNER: Bina Daigeler
MUSIC: Jozef Van Wissem, Sqürl
WITH: Tom Hiddleston (Adam), Tilda Swinton (Eve), Mia Wasikowska (Ava), John Hurt (Marlowe), Anton Yelchin (Ian), Jeffrey Wright (Dr Watson), Slimane Dazi (Bilal), Carter Logan (Scott)

FESTIVALS: Cannes (In Competition) 2013

REVIEW

Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) have been together since the beginning of time. Their exhaustive knowledge of the past is matched by an uncanny familiarity with upcoming events (‘Have the water wars started?’ ‘No, they’re still all about oil’). Exquisitely refined souls, they have had a hand in creating many works of art commonly attributed to others – Franz Schubert and Jack White, for example. We hardly need mention that they are denizens of the night, subsisting on the purest human blood.

“Jarmusch delivers a passionate and consummately chic essay on science, music, time and above all love. His most poetic film since Dead Man, Only Lovers Left Alive is also funny and playful, with Tilda Swinton delivering one-liners with vintage aplomb and Tom Hiddleston playing her world-weary amour to surprisingly loveable effect. [It is] impeccably crafted in every respect – from the sublimely atmospheric visuals to Jarmusch’s characteristically bespoke musical choices… Swinton, felinely mischievous, and Hiddleston, suavely Byronic as her straight man, are not only very funny but relishably tender, making the notion of eternal undying (or undead) love a considerably more sophisticated proposition than in the Twilight series… Science, literature, music history and even botany all play their part in a script that combines occasionally goofy wit (‘You drank Ian!’) with a melancholy harping on mortality and humanity’s capacity to mess the globe up.”

— Jonathan Romney, Screendaily

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Queenstown     
Tuesday, 31 August, 8:15pm

Palmerston North     
Wednesday, 29 September, 6:00pm

Canterbury     
Monday, 18 October, 7:00pm

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