Impressive for its obsessive focus on character—really, the only thing that it has going on—which manages to avoid devolving into explanation or even adoration, retaining an observational distance that perfectly amplifies its mood of optimistic discord. Most of the vampire lore takes the form of creative allusion, which makes it quite fun—down to the proposition that Shakespeare’s plays were all written by Christopher Marlowe, who is really a vampire.
Hiddleston and Swinton play Adam and Eve with an appropriate pall,…
