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Byzantium: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Saoirse Ronan, Barry Cassin, Gemma Arterton, David Heap. Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a rundown hotel.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Neil Jordan
- 2013-05-31
Jun 28, 2013 · That’s how this bluesy vampire melodrama “Byzantium” worked on me. The plot is almost irrelevant, but the way screenwriter Moira Buffini (adapting her own stage play “A Vampire Story”) weaves threads of history, folklore, feminist spirit and universal themes is striking.
Byzantium received generally positive reviews from film critics. As of June 2020, the film holds a 66% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 120 reviews with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.
Byzantium (2012) is Neil Jordan’s triumphant return to the vampire subgenre. It stars Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, both award-worthy performances. Screenplay by Moira Buffini, adapted from her play A Vampire Story, with similar characters but some very different themes.
Jun 27, 2013 · Neil Jordan's latest stab at a vampire story revels in the gothic-horror aesthetic that gave us the genre in the first place — though a Victorian chill dominates more of the proceedings than ...
- Ian Buckwalter
Dec 2, 2021 · Based on her 2008 play, A Vampire Story, Byzantium is chronicled by Eleanor Webb (Saoirse Ronan) as she writes and constantly revisits her 18th-century world while living in the present.
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May 28, 2013 · Review: Byzantium. Forlorn depictions of love and death may dignify the film, but narrative withholding ultimately drives a stake into its unmistakable heart. Throughout Byzantium, 16-year-old Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) writes of what she cannot speak—a bit archaically, yes, but she is, after all, over a hundred years old.
