There is a scene in Byzantium which features the starlings gathering late in the day, before they roost and fly across the sky as a CGI army of birds. As they dart through the air, they create a number of intimidating shapes and murmurations, terrorising the film.s stars and audiences alike. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton and Johnny Lee Miller, Byzantium tells the story of two mysterious women who seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Atherton) meets lonely Noel (Daniel Mays), who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor (Ronan) befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones) and tells him their lethal secret - they were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood (although they are very different kinds of vampires, called soucriants, who can survive in the sunshine and are selective over who they kill). As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them,...
- 8/19/2013
- by Rodney Appleyard
- IF.com.au
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