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Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I generally liked this movie and consider it a keeper. It's kind of a character study of how some vampires might be like after hundreds and thousands of years. I like that there is almost no supernatural elements, which have bored me with many of the other vampire stories. The only seemingly supernatural element was that one of the vampires could tell how old something is by touching it. That seemed silly. I would have been OK with the pacing but the scenery was often rather dull, such as closed warehouse and commercial buildings. The music was good. I actually learned about some musicians unknown to me. I didn't like some of the name drops of historical figures. Some used unsubstantiated claims about people. The worst slanderous element was the Shakespeare reference. It seemed a bit out of place anyway let alone the "Shakespeare wasn't the author" claim. Overall, I think that the movie was worth watching, especially since it gives up some of the hokier elements of the vampire mythos.

Adam and Eve, a pair of lovers living in Detroit and Tangiers respectively, re-unite for a while. They talk about all that has happened in their lives, and the people they met. There is a lot of self-aware punning here, in the style of Doctor Who, because they are hundreds of years old. Eve's little sister shows up, and is warned not to behave badly. But it is clear that she will behave badly - to everyone but Adam and Eve, who appear monumentally thick because of this. Because of the sister's bad behaviour, the couple have to move house. And that's all that happens. Everyone has funky big hair and wears cool sunglasses, and it is all dark and moody. But this trivial little family drama hardly commands the viewer's attention, and is supposed to be interesting because the characters are vampires. It's not. A slow, boring tale with cheesy dialogue.

It's done just to be appreciated! It's a quiet, slow and obscure movie with an excellent photograph AND a great cast. The script it's not the greatest thing, it's very contemporary, empty and slow especially in the beggining, the best parts are between the lines, the sutil things like the brilliant playings (actings) united to a wonderful and pretty photograph and an excellent soundtrack. It's worth it!

I'm guilty of an overdeveloped sense of nostalgia, and that can blind me to obvious flaws in films that tug at those tender parts of my psyche. While the logical part of me can see that Only Lovers Left Alive lacks some plot movement, character development and plain old common sense, I can't get over the parts I love. The wild aesthetic, the pop culture reference overload, the overly cool Adam and Eve - characters that would have caused a high school aged me overhaul her appearance and stay out of the sun even more than she already did. Jarmusch creates the perfect, delicious world of intense and wise love, cold and aloof passion and all the right literary references - all wrapped up in a killer soundtrack. I love this film. It tugs at all the parts a cool love story should, and it hits all the places a "cool" vampire story should. It might not be for everyone, but it sure is for me.