Recommended Movie of the Day ...

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Recommended Movie of the Day ...


Byzantium


 Gemma Arterton (Actor),    Saoirse Ronan (Actor),    Neil Jordan (Director)     Rated: R


"A run-down coastal resort becomes the epicenter of unimaginable evil when two mysterious women suddenly appear there seeking refuge. Alluring Clara (Gemma Arterton, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and schoolgirl Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan, Hanna) meet local loner Noel (Daniel Mays, Atonement) and take up residence in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium.


Before long Eleanor befriends another local, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones, Antiviral) and reveals to him the lethal secret the two women share: they were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their shared past threatens to catch up to them with deadly consequences. A uniquely fresh take on the vampire myth, Neil Jordan s (The Brave One) BYZANTIUM is a stylish and affecting look at the loneliness and isolation that come with the price of immortality."


My comments - This is a story of teenage rebellion that took 200 years to come to fruition. The fact that the mother and daughter were vampires was really secondary, in my opinion, to the normal process all adolescents must go through: rejecting their parental values, making their own (sometimes disastrous) decisions and finally coming to terms with both the value of their parent and making their own way in the world. The acting was splendid, the vampire stuff was both shocking and beautiful, and the sets couldn't have been better. Two thumbs up. For adults only.


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