I found this movie absolutely refreshing, compared to a lot of the popular vampire media I'm used to seeing. Only Lovers Left Alive was highly romantic, poetic, and sweet, everything I could ask for from a modern vampire flick. The cast was killer, as was the cinematography and soundtrack. Seeing what bits and pieces Adam and eve both took from the past, records, old television, vintage fashion etc. was interesting. How well they were able to successfully blend into modern settings seemed to be an enormous theme, one that they eventually were weak to. "Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?" is the phrase used in the screenplay. I liked how much science and thought was put into the narrative, i.e. finding blood that was pure and disease free.
The literature selection I read was "The Vampire Lestat," by Anne Rice, which is interesting because it the time it was published, (1985) it was probably also considered vampires in a modern lense. That seems to be the 'hook' that vampire media is going with today, how vampires interact with a modern, millennial setting. As mentioned, Claudia's character was one of the more interesting vampire concepts I've heard of. A girl, frozen in time but still faced with adult feelings, emotions, and urges is something I would probably be pretty protective of, if it came from anyone other then Anne Rice. I'm also a little cautious of the choice to make Lestat and Louis romanticly involved, as the trope of monsters being gay/queer runs the risk of demonization.
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