Hiddleston and Swinton take a bite out of Cannes

Cannes organisers have found a last-minute berth for 'Only Lovers Left Alive,' Jim Jarmusch’s vampire movie starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston.

Described by its director as "a crypto-vampire love story", the film joins 19 other titles in the race for the festival's crowning Palme d'Or award.

'Only Lovers Left Alive' stars  Hiddleston and Swinton as an underground musician and his enigmatic lover of several centuries, while the supporting cast includes John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright and Mia Wasikowska as Swinton's sister. "The film is about love in the end," Hiddleston said recently. "And time, and our creative power."

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There's a strong '80s vampire flick vibe (the film has been compared to 'The Hunger') with a long-haired Hiddleston in motorcycle gloves and dark glasses and Swinton as an ice-blonde.

Swinton has been a frequent presence at Cannes in recent years, appearing last year with 'Moonrise Kingdom' and in 2011 with 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'.” For the normally prolific Jarmusch, it marks only the indie director’s second film in eight years, after 'The Limits of Control' in 2009.