Only Lovers Left Alive
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Only Lovers Left Alive A FILM BY Jim Jarmusch Synopsis Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? Director’s Statement ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE is an blood to survive. But they now live in the unconventional love story between a man world of the 21st century where biting the and a woman, Adam and Eve. (My script was neck of a stranger would be reckless and partially inspired by the last book published regressive -- for survival, they must be certain by Mark Twain: The Diaries of Adam and Eve the blood that sustains them is pure and free -- though no direct reference to the book of disease or contamination. And, almost is made other than the character’s names.) like shadows, they have learned long ago to These two lovers are archetypal outsiders, deftly avoid the attention of any authorities. classic bohemians, extremely intelligent and sophisticated -- yet still in full possession of For our fi lm, the vampire is a resonant their animal instincts. They have traveled the metaphor -- a way to frame the deeper world and experienced many remarkable intentions of the story. This is a love story, things, always inhabiting the shadowed but also the story of two exceptional margins of society. And, like their own love outsiders who, given their unusual story, their particular perspective on human circumstances, have a vast overview of history spans centuries -- because they human and natural history, including happen to be vampires. stunning achievements and tragic and brutal failures. Adam and Eve are themselves But this is not your usual vampire story. metaphors for the present state of human Set in the very distinct cities of Detroit and life -- they are fragile and endangered, Tangier, and taking place almost entirely susceptible to natural forces, and to the at night, Adam and Eve must have human shortsighted behavior of those in power. YEAR OF THE HORSE, 1997 Filmography 107 minutes, color and black & white Jim Jarmusch GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, FEATURE FILMS 1999 Jim Jarmusch has long been considered 116 minutes, color PERMANENT VACATION, 1980 a seminal fi gure in American independent Cesar Nomination, Best Foreign Film, 1999 80 minutes, color cinema. His fi lms are often noted for their Independent Spirit Award Nomination, Best The Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim, transcendent minimalism and upturning Picture, 2000 W. Germany, 1980 of traditional genres such as the road movie, International Critics Prize, Figueira da Foz, western, crime-fi lm, and detective story. COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, 2003 Portugal, 1982 Born in Akron, Ohio Jarmusch lives and 96 minutes, black & white works in New York. Offi cial Selection, Venice International Film STRANGER THAN PARADISE, 1984 Festival, 2003 90 minutes, black & white Offi cial Selection, Toronto International Film Camera D’Or, Cannes Film Festival, 1984 Festival, 2003 Golden Leopard, Locarno International Film Offi cial Selection, Tribeca Film Festival, 2003 Festival, 1984 Offi cial Selection, Moscow Film Festival, 2004 Best Picture, National Society of Film Critics Independent Spirit Award Nomination, Best Award, 1984 Supporting Female (Cate Blanchett), 2005 Best Foreign Film, Japan, 1986 BROKEN FLOWERS, 2005 DOWN BY LAW, 1986 106 minutes, color 106 minutes, black & white Grand Prix, Cannes International Film Amanda Award for Best Foreign Film, Festival, 2005 Norway, 1987 Audience Award, Cambridge Film Festival Bodil Award for Non-European Film, 2005 Denmark, 1987 Best Foreign Film Award, Cesky Lev 2006 Best Actor, Roberto Benigni, Italy, 1987 Czech Lion, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor, Roberto Benigni, Denmark, 1987 2006 Best Foreign Film, Israel, 1987 Best Supporting Actor Award (Jeffrey Wright), San Diego Film Critics Society, 2006 MYSTERY TRAIN, 1989 Independent Spirit Award Nomination, Best 110 minutes, color Supporting Male (Jeffrey Wright), 2006 Prize for Highest Artistic Achievement, Cannes Film Festival, 1989 THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, 2009 116min, color NIGHT ON EARTH, 1991 Offi cial Selection, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 128 minutes, color 2009 Grand Award, Best Feature Film, Houston Offi cial Selection, San Sebastian Film Festival, Intl. Film Festival, 1992 2009 Best Cinematography, Independent Spirit Offi cial Selection, London International Film Awards, 1993 Festival, 2009 DEAD MAN, 1995 121 minutes, black & white Best Cinematography, New York Film Critics SHORT FILMS Circle Awards, 1996 INT. TRAILER. NIGHT., 2002 Screen International Five Continents Award, 10 minutes, black & white European Film Awards, 1996 Principal Cast TOM HIDDLESTON is best-known He was also named Glamour Magazine’s TILDA SWINTON, a native of Scotland, Tarr’s THE MAN from London, Andrew to filmgoers as the villain Loki in Kenneth ‘Man of the Year’ and ‘World’s Hottest Actor’ started making films with the English director Adamson’s two blockbusters THE Branagh’s THOR, a role he reprised in the by Total Film magazine. Derek Jarman in 1985, with CaRAVAGGIO. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA tales; Erick Marvel blockbuster hit THE AVENGERS, They made seven more films together, Zonca’s JULIA, which won her the Evening which set numerous box office records, Hiddleston was most recently seen on our including THE LAST OF ENGLAND, THE Standard’s Best Actress award, and Tony including the biggest opening weekend in screens portraying Prince Hal in HENRY IV GARDEN, WAR REQUIEM, WITTGENSTEIN Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON - for which North America, tied the record for the fastest PARTS 1&2 and the title role in HENRY V, for and EDwaRD II (for which she was named Swinton received BAFTA and Academy film to gross $1 billion worldwide, which he won the Times Breakthrough Award Best Actress at Venice in 1991). She gained Awards for Best Supporting Actress in 2008. and became the third highest-grossing film at the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Awards. international recognition in 1992 for her Swinton starred in Lynne Ramsay’s WE of all time. starring role in ORLANDO, directed by NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, which This year Hiddleston will be seen in a cameo Sally Potter. screened In Competition at Cannes 2011 Born in London, Hiddleston trained at the role in the new film by Joanna Hogg, and and was received as a critical triumph. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and rose to this October he returns to his role as Loki Swinton has established ongoing filmmaking She followed up by appearing in Wes prominence through a number of theatre, in THOR: THE DaRK WORLD, alongside an relationships with Lynn Hershman-Leeson Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM. In 2013, television and, more recently, major film all-star cast including Chris Hemsworth and with whom she made CONCEIVING ADA, she appeared in David Bowie’s video for appearances. Recent roles include playing F. Natalie Portman. TEKNOLUST and StRANGE CULTURE, THE StaRS ARE OUT TONIGHT, and her Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT John Maybury (MAN 2 MAN and LOVE IS acclaimed performance art piece titled THE IN PARIS, Freddie Page in Terence Davies’ Hiddleston’s latest project will see him THE DEVIL), and Luca Guadagnino (THE MAYBE at New York’s Museum of Modern THE DEEP BLUE SEA and Captain Nicholls portray the notoriously dynamic war PROtaGONISTS, THE LOVE FaCTORY, and Art. Swinton will next be seen in Jong-hoo in Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE. Last year photographer Robert Capa in Paul Andrew most recently the acclaimed I AM LOVE, Bong’s epic SNOWPIERCER, Terry Gilliam’s Hiddleston was nominated for a BAFTA for Williams’ CLOSE ENOUGH. The film will which she co-produced). THE ZERO THEOREM, and Wes Anderson’s the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award detail Capa’s commitment to defeating the THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. and the Evening Standard Film Award as forces of fascism whilst also focusing on his Swinton has also appeared in Spike Jonze’s Best Actor for his role in ARCHIPELAGO. intense romance with fellow photographer ADaptatION; David Mackenzie’s YOUNG ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE continues Hiddleston won the British Rising Star Award Gerda Taro, played by Hayley Atwell. ADAM; Mike Mills’ THUMBSUCKER and Swinton’s body of work with director Jim at The Richard Attenborough Regional Film Francis Lawrence’s CONStaNTINE; Béla Jarmusch, with whom she made BROKEN Awards, and Best Male Newcomer for his FLOWERS and THE LIMITS OF CONTROL. role in THOR at the 2012 Empire Awards. MIA WASIKOWSKA has established JOHN HURT C.B.E. is one of the herself as a rising star of the big screen. UK’s most prominent character actors, In 2013, Mia will star in Chan-wook Park’s a consummate screen chameleon. In an dramatic thriller STOKER opposite Nicole international career spanning over thirty Kidman and Matthew Goode, Richard years, he has appeared in over a hundred Ayoade’s comedy THE DOUBLE opposite fi lms, as well as acclaimed theatre and Jesse Eisenberg, and John Curran’s TRACKS. television work. Twice-nominated for an Academy Award, his best known roles Wasikowska will also make her directorial include Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, David Lynch’s debut with a segment of THE TURNING, a THE ELEPHANT MAN, Stephen Frears’ THE collection of short fi lms based on stories HIT, James McTeigue’s V FOR VENDETTA and by Australian writer Tim Winton. Her Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND performance as ‘Alice’ in Tim Burton’s ALICE THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, IN WONDERLAND earned her an AFI Award and David Yates’ HARRY POTTER AND THE for Best International Actress in 2010.