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Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
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Directed by Tony Scott
Catherine DeneuveMiriam Blaylock
David BowieJohn Blaylock
Susan SarandonSarah Roberts
Cliff DeYoungTom Haver
Beth EhlersAlice Cavender
Dan HedayaLieutenant Allegrezza
Rufus CollinsCharlie Humphries
Suzanne BertishPhyllis
James AubreyRon
Ann MagnusonYoung Woman from Disco
John Stephen HillYoung Man from Disco
Shane RimmerArthur JelinekVideos
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talisencrwAug 31, 2016
I have to admit that although I've had the DVD forever, simply based on the laurels of the beauty/acting accomplishments of David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, and that nothing I had ever watched by Tony Scott, with the exception of 'Crimson Tide', really gripped me as being cinephilically exceptional. And no, this really isn't either. But I threw it on anyway, and especially considering it was Scott's debut, this wasn't so bad as to make Bram Stoker roll over in his grave. In… Read more
fact, although perhaps a tad on the paper-thin plot side, it was quite enjoyable, an elegant and sad elegy of the pros and cons of immortality. Yes, it was more style than substance, yet that doesn't always have to be a bad thing. Here, at least, it wasn't, and I for one simply adored the ending.