Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Not the thrill of immortality, not the hunt, not the gothic romance. What it offers instead is two ancient lovers, the crumbling cities they haunt, and the slow pleasure of their company.
Actor: Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton began with Derek Jarman, appearing in most of his films across a decade of British experimental cinema, and never fully left that sensibility behind.
Orlando required her to play a character who lives four hundred years and changes sex partway through, which is close to a statement of method for everything after.
She won Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton, playing corporate panic as physical illness, and has worked repeatedly for Wes Anderson, Bong Joon-ho and Luca Guadagnino.
She played an elderly male rabbi in Suspiria under prosthetics and initially denied it was her, which is characteristic.
