Byzantium
- US Distributor:
- IFC
- UK Distributor:
- StudioCanal
- Status:
- Completed
- Genre:
- Drama
- Country of Origin:
- UK
- Language:
- English
- Running Time:
- 118 mins.
- Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Hollander, Danny Mays
- Producer(s):
- Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen, Alan Moloney
- Crew:
Writer: Moira Buffini
DoP: Sean Bobbitt
Editor: Tony Lawson
Costume Designer: Consolata Boyle
Eleanor and Clara, two mysterious and penniless young women, flee the scene of a violent crime and arrive in a run-down coastal resort. They try to find money and refuge along the tawdry seafront and in the dilapidated hotels.
Clara, ever-practical, sells her body. She soon meets shy and lonely Noel, who provides a roof over their heads in his seedy guesthouse, Byzantium. Clara, always looking towards the future, turns it into a ‘pop-up’ brothel.
Meanwhile Eleanor, the eternal schoolgirl, meets Frank, a kindred spirit who unwittingly prompts her to tell the truth about her life. She tells him that Clara is her mother; yet Clara is only a few years older. She says that she was born in 1804; yet she is just sixteen. She confesses that she must drink human blood to stay alive – and so must her mother. In the small, quiet town, people start to die.
And the past that the girls have been running from for so long, finally catches up with them – with astonishing consequences.
'Jordan’s direction is stylish and smart' - THE FILM STAGE
'See Byzantium. Don't see Twilight' - ESQUIRE
by Eric Kohn
Contemporary cinema has featured a fair share of young, attractive vampires in recent years, but Neil Jordan's "Byzantium" stands out for exploring that subject with a mixture of intelligence and gravitas. Based on Moira...
Actresses Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan and director Neil Jordan introduce us to their vampire tale Byzantium. Talking about the Oscar winning director Saoirse said, "He's very practical and it's not that he is sentimental or anything either but...
By Christopher Schobert
There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an old Hammer horror film on TV. In it, we see a stake...
Ronan, Arterton star as vampires
By DAVE MCNARY
IFC has acquired U.S. rights Neil Jordan to Neil Jordan's vampire thriller "Byzantium," starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton as immortals.
Deal was closed...
by Mike Fleming
EXCLUSIVE: In the second seven-figure deal so far today at the Toronto Film Festival, IFC is acquiring U.S. rights to Byzantium, the vampire film by Neil Jordan that has festgoers feeling the filmmaker has...
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