Eleanor Reviews

  *** Neil Jordan is perhaps the one to blame for the current interest in vampires as it was he who directed the 1994 vampire-flick ‘Interview with a Vampire’. Now, nearly ten years later, he returns to the blood sucking Un-Dead with ‘Byzantium’ starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother and daughter team struggling to make ends meet in the 21 st Century. Living an almost nomadic lifestyle to avoid detection, the pair move from place to place, Arterton’s Clara using her impressive assets to support them and picking off abusive men to feed her hunger. Ronan’s Eleanor, however, only feeds on those who are ready to die and only really wants to tell her secret to someone so that the lying will stop. Queue the arrival of the love-interest, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones, looking fittingly unwell). However, it is not just their secret they must keep hidden, as the pair are also being pursued by the vampire brotherhood. The first problem is that everyone is tired of vampi