In a different story that tells of a great love story between two people who were suffering in their love story. That story began when a depressed musician met with his mistress, whose emotional relationship seemed to have already suffered for a long time. In the end, it seems that the emotional relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a younger sister completely changed the course of things.
This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above.
Somewhere around the lovely scene of Tilda Swinton dancing, freely and wholeheartedly, to the old soul record, Jarmusch's M.O. becomes clear: 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a hanging-out move, just with vampires.
Only Lovers is so fluidly edited and thinly plotted that it feels almost off-hand; yet, it's also made with great care, beautifully lit and set-designed to an eyelash.