Re: Tom Hiddleston | Only Lovers Left Alive: First Reviews

[carolinelamb]

All reviews (except the HitFlix review perhaps) have good things to say about Only Lovers Left Alive, almost all agreeing that Tom Hiddleston and especially Tilda Swinton were made for playing vampires, the music is cool (Yasmine Hamdan!) and is nice to look at, although even the friendliest review admits that there isn't that much plot.

To me that isn't a bad thing actually. My favourite movies with Tom Hiddleston are the two movies he made with Joanna Hogg, Unrelated and Archipelago, which no-one would call "plot-driven" in a conventional sense.

Gathering from the overall tone of the reviews I feel that Only Lovers Left Alive might be a similar exercise as Dead Man, one of the Jim Jarmusch movies I liked (besides Ghostdog and Stranger Than Paradise); an aesthetic, cerebral take on a classic genre, that is humorous but also reverent at the same time.

Have a look at the reviews. I don't think Only Lovers Left Alive relies on a plot that can be "spoiled" but just in case you still want to avoid it, I put the more "revealing" reviews under an extra cut.


Huffington Post
The Guardian (Video of Audience Reactions)
the Irish Times
Variety
ScreenDaily


HitFix
Indiewire
The Hollywood Reporter
TotalFilm
The Telegraph