Immortality

Immortality sat in my NetFlix queue for a very, very long time when it finally reached the top. It had been pegged as one of those artsy vampire movies, which I wanted to see because Jude Law is in it, but didn’t want to see because it was an artsy vampire movie. It finally appeared in my mailbox, and to be honest I am glad it finally did. The movie was beautiful, weird, and the actors were excellent.

Steven (Jude Law) is a handsome Londoner with a very weird name. He is good at seducing women, and it is obvious at the beginning of the movie that he has seduced many of them. He is also ill, and needs a woman’s love to survive (enter the vampire mythos). The only way he can feed on that love is by drinking their blood and absorbing it into his bloodstream. He has yet to meet a woman who truly captures his heart until he meets Anna (Elina Lowensohn). She doesn’t know who he really is, and he isn’t quite sure he can kill her when he needs to. Also, he has the added trouble of a pesky policeman who suspects he is somehow involved with the deaths of his previous girlfriends. Will he do it, or will he waste away?

The movie is quite lovely to look at with beautiful locations and a vivid use of colors. The use of color is striking in almost every frame of the film. Jude Law is seductive and creepy, pitiful and ruthless. You genuinely begin to pity him. The only thing I found difficult was some of the vampire mythos and the way it was adapted. The crystals took some thinking to figure out what was going on there.

Overall I wouldn’t go into Immortality looking for a vampire flick. It is really more of a seductive thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Body Double, and Fatal Attraction.

Rating: 4 Purrs for a beautifully shot thriller with excellent acting, and that very striking painting Jude Law's character has hanging in his flat. It's so freaking haunting, I can't get it out of my head.