I caught Jim Jarmusch‘s newest film, Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival last year and enjoyed it so much I’ve already included it on my list of films I’ll be considering for my top ten of 2014. Here’s a snippet from my “B” review:
It’s no surprise Jim Jarmusch’s vampire love story Only Lovers Left Alive isn’t a vampire film in the same vein as anything you’ve seen come out of Hollywood. These vampires don’t glitter and they’ve found more conventional ways to sate their blood lust than risking exposure or worse by draining human beings. There is, however, an overall sense of loneliness and the characters are quite moody as most vampires tend to be. Their disgruntled, “hate the world” nature speaks to the film’s larger theme, and while it isn’t exactly ground-breaking, in terms of execution, it’s quietly entertaining.
Starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as the two life long vampire lovers with a supporting cast that includes Anton Yelchin and Mia Wasikowska, the film will finally hit U.S. theaters on April 11, but today you can check out the entire soundtrack.
Jarmusch previously discussed the score, which was performed by Jozef Van Wissem in [amz asin=”B00I3H61AA” size=”small”]collaboration with Jarmusch’s band SQÃœRL, telling Vice.com:
None of the score for Lovers is really written for specific scenes. Jozef wrote quite a few lute pieces for the film, so there will be solo lute pieces as score. Myself, Carter Logan and Shane Stoneback have a band together called Squirrel and we’ve started adding stuff to what Jozef already gave us. What we’ll have is a kind of modular score. Sometimes we’ll add to them or even take his lute away to make it a more rock and roll thing. Other times it will be only his lute, or it may be his lute with drums and feedback or just another guitar. Jozef’s pieces are the guide and themes throughout the film and then we add and subtract from them. And one of the main characters in the film is a musician, so we’ll create his music too.
Check it out in its entirety below and to read my full review click here.
