2013 · drama · romance · fantasy
Only Lovers Left Alive
Directed by Jim Jarmusch2h 3m2013
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Our read: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
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