Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, has something I appreciate--adult vampires instead of the odious teenage ones (a.k.a. The Twilight Saga twits).
Having familiarized myself with the vampire ecology in Bram Stoker's Dracula, I believe vampires to be intelligent adult creatures who have more than sex and chastity on their mind.
Count Dracula, was above everything else, an artist, an erudite adult male. Jarmusch brings back the adult erudition back to vampirism in his new film on a refreshing class of vampires who are lovers of old-world creativity and art in classic Bohemian style.
The female lead, Eve, played by the gorgeous Tilda Swinton, packs her suitcases with classics and Adam, her male counterpart decorates his walls with pictures of famous artists. Adam and Eve's muse, quite fascinatingly is Christopher Marlowe, one of Europe's original literary outlaws who was both spymaster and erudite poet and playwright who dismissed Shakespeare as a plagiarist and populist with grave literacy problems.
Marlowe, Adam and Eve look upon the present as a present of zombies, comprised of ordinary humans who have squandered and/or lost their ability to appreciate art.
Movie critic A.O. Scott describes Only Lovers Left Alive as "a generational protest against the zombie kids and their enablers, digitally distracted creatures who don’t appreciate the tactile, sensual glories of the old things."
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