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Byzantium (2012) 6.5
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6.5/10 from 29,079 users
Metascore: 66/100
Reviews: 101 user | 239 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort. Director:Neil Jordan |
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Nadia
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Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence. Written by Production
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 May 2013 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
A Vampire Story See more »Box Office
Budget:
£8,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$16,643 (USA) (28 June 2013)Gross:
$84,293 (USA) (2 August 2013)Company Credits
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Eleanor: My story can never be told. I write it over and over, wherever we find shelter. I write of what I cannot speak: the truth. I write all I know of it, then I throw the pages to the wind. Maybe the birds can read it.
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Written by Franz Schubert
Performed by Janet Baker (as Dame Janet Baker) and Geoffrey Parsons
Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Ltd (P) (1981)
Digital remastering courtesy of EMI Records Ltd (P) (1996)
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[first lines]Eleanor: My story can never be told. I write it over and over, wherever we find shelter. I write of what I cannot speak: the truth. I write all I know of it, then I throw the pages to the wind. Maybe the birds can read it.
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Nacht Und Traume, D.827Written by Franz Schubert
Performed by Janet Baker (as Dame Janet Baker) and Geoffrey Parsons
Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Ltd (P) (1981)
Digital remastering courtesy of EMI Records Ltd (P) (1996)
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Byzantium is more a study of being human than being vampire and holds the attention easily with strong lead performances. At the center is actually a mother daughter relationship, a question of nature versus nurture and survival. As well as all the vices of humankind thrown in for good measure. In this movie the vampires are all human, albeit changed and remain human, albeit enhanced but at a cost and within the shadows of normal living. Life and death of course are issues and living,if we could live forever would we rise above what we are? Questions within. Really enjoyed this and good to see Saiorse Ronan back on form after that terrible Alien outing. Gemma Arterton also puts in a great performance. This is billed as a vampire movie however I'd recommend it to anyone as although the elements are there its very far from what you'd expect of a movie of that genre.