Only Lovers Left Alive: The perfect and Vampiric film by Jim Jarmusch was released in Cannes on May 25th, 2013, December 25th in Germany and February 21th, 2014 in the UK. Los Angeles Review of Books: Unlike most other vampire movies, with their focus on sex and violence, Only Lovers Left Alive is about elemental processes: deep time, the longue durée (the film opens with stars and galaxies billions of light years away), and the dubious privilege of mapping biology onto the coordinates of physic