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Only Lovers Left Alive
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*Only Lovers Left Alive* is a 2013 film directed and written by Jim Jarmusch. The cast includes Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hurt. Jeremy Thomas served as producer, while Yorick Le Saux was the director of photography. Jozef van Wissem composed the music, and Affonso Gonçalves handled editing. The film is categorized as a drama, romance, vampire, and musical film, with genres also listed as comedy and fantasy.
The narrative is set in Detroit and Tangier, with filming taking place in Germany and Cologne. The original languages include English, Arabic, and French. Production companies involved include Recorded Picture Company, Pandora Film, Snow Wolf Produktion, Faliro House Productions, and HanWay Films. The film originated from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Cyprus, and Greece.
With a runtime of 123 minutes, the film had a budget of 7,000,000. It was distributed by Netflix in video on demand format. Box office revenue is recorded as 7,600,000 in one source and 8,213,623 in another. The film received a rating of 7.2 from 2,392 votes on one platform and 115,846 votes on another.
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7.2A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Eve
- Tom Hiddleston as Adam
- Anton Yelchin as Ian
- Mia Wasikowska as Ava
- Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Watson
- Slimane Dazi as Bilal
Themes
- guitar
- musician
- immortality
- vampire
- tangier morocco
- love
- detroit, michigan
- suicidal thoughts
- contamination
- vampiress (female vampire)
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jim Jarmusch
- Written by
- Jim Jarmusch
- Produced by
- Jeremy Thomas Reinhard Brundig
- Starring
- Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Mia Wasikowska Anton Yelchin Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi John Hurt
- Cinematography
- Yorick Le Saux
- Edited by
- Affonso Gonçalves
- Music by
- Jozef van Wissem Yasmine Hamdan Sqürl
- Production companies
- Recorded Picture Company Pandora Film
- Distributed by
- Soda Pictures (United Kingdom) Pandora Film Verleih (Germany)
- Release dates
- 25 May 2013 ( 2013-05-25 ) ( Cannes ) 25 December 2013 ( 2013-12-25 ) (Germany) 21 February 2014 ( 2014-02-21 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 123 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom Germany
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $7 million
- Box office
- $8.2 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- Cyprus
- Original language
- French
- Main subject
- vampire
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Screenwriter
- Jim Jarmusch
- Composer
- Jozef van Wissem
- Producer
- Jeremy Thomas
- Cinematographer
- Yorick Le Saux
- Narrative location
- Tangier
- Filming location
- Cologne
- Duration
- 123
- FilmAffinity ID
- 851633
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.sonyclassics.com/onlyloversleftalive
- Image
- Only lovers left alive Cannes 2013.jpg
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- publication date
- 2014-04-17
- title
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- film editor
- Affonso Gonçalves
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 7000000
- box office
- 7600000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 79/100
- references work, tradition or theory
- Shakespeare authorship question
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Encyclopedic overview
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 Gothic fantasy drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John Hurt. An international co-production between the United Kingdom and Germany, the film focuses on the romance between two vampires and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2016, the film was ranked among the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century by 177 critics around the world. In late 2019, it was named the fourth greatest film of the 2010s by The Hollywood Reporter's chief film critic Todd McCarthy.
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