The curtain will rise on the 54th Thessaloniki Film Festival on Friday November 1st with a modest ceremony that will take place at 20:30 at the Festival’s historic seat, the Olympion theatre. Jim Jarmusch’s much anticipated film Only Lovers Left Alive will be screened after the official opening of the festival. The American director, who is visiting Greece for the first time, will attend the screening.
The host of the opening ceremony is actress Eleni Roussinou who stars in Alexander Avranas’ Miss Violence, the much-lauded Greek film included in the festival program.
Always uncompromising in his artistic vision, Jim Jarmusch builds with Only Lovers Left Alive a unique film universe, which in this case focuses on the vampire mythology. The film’s protagonists are two sophisticated vampires, Eve (Tilda Swinton) and Adam (Tom Hiddleston), who have been around for centuries, living on the margins of society and now facing a modern world that they feel has become too confusing.
The film was praised by critics and is representative of the American filmmaker’s style, serving as an allegory about companionship, art and the state of humanity. Jarmusch’s protagonists, two souls that are not part of this world, are employed to make a comment on “love everlasting.”
The participation of the opening film, which is part of the 54th Festival’s “Open Horizons” section, is one of the actions of this year’s Festival financed by the European Union - European Regional Development Fund, in the framework of the Regional Programme for Central Macedonia - 2007-2013.
