Byzantium

Striking cinematography highlights this unusual, nonlinear, dark, bloody, 2-hour, 2012 Neil Jordan film, which is based on Moira Buffini's play A Vampire Story, that follow a 200-year-old, mysterious, blood-sucking, English soucouyant (Saoirse Ronan), who falls for a leukemia-stricken Brit (Caleb Landry Jones), and her whoring vampire mother (Gemma Arterton) who take up residence in a seaside guesthouse of a grieving man (Daniel Mays) who just buried his mother as they try to hide from other vampires (Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, et al.) in The Brotherhood of Vampires who are hot on their trail.
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