An unusual vampire flick. The sense of the macabre, the darkness, the blood, most of the core elements that define the genre are understated in Byzandium. The story' s vampires hide their identity by blending in the world and are separated between those who have taken a more "ethical" or "humanist" approach by sucking the blood of elderly people who are at death' s door, and the more "traditionalist" kind, who uphold the old codes and look down at humans. It is probably not a suitable film for the casual viewer' s taste, but for those - like myself - who love Neil Jordan's odd and idiosyncratic mix of old-age literary romanticism and social realist cinema, it is a beautiful film.
Review of Byzantium
