ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Anton Yelchin (Like Crazy), Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale), Slimane Dazi (A Prophet), Yasmine Hamdan (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers), director, writer; Reinhard Brundig (Whale Rider) and Jeremy Thomas (Dom Hemingway), producers; Jozef van Wissem (film debut), composer; Yorick Le Saux (Arbitrage), cinematographer; Affonso Gonçalves (Winter’s Bone), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Adam (Hiddleston) is a reclusive rock star with a passionate distaste for how society has degraded itself. Soon, he is reunited with former lover Eve (Swinton) but their affair is made all the more complicated with the arrival of Eve’s undisciplined younger sister Ava (Wasikowska). Oh, and did we mention that they’re all vampires? Yeah, that bit might be important…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Only Lovers Left Alive is a truly gothic romance with seriously adult undertones that bursts into life (no pun intended) with the off-the-wall turns by acclaimed actors Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 21ST FEBRUARY 2014

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