THE DEAD DON'T DIE
USA, 2019 - 103'
Director: Jim Jarmusch / Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch / Cast: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy / Cinematography: Frederick Elmes
In The Dead Don't Die, the disproportionate abuse of the planet's resources has caused the polar cap to fracture and shift the earth's axis, swapping the day with the night and awakening the dead from eternal rest. The events take place in Centerville, somewhere in Ohio, where to defend the order and the town there are only Cliff Robertson, chief of police, Ronnie Peterson, an agent who seems to know everything about zombies and the eradication of the living-dead and Mindy Morrison, a scared policewoman who would like to escape far away. Attached to their earthly fixations and determined to devour every living thing, the zombies will also have to contend with Zelda Wiston, funeral director and katana virtuoso.
Six years after imagining decadent and misanthropic vampires (Only lovers left alive), turning off all such conventions, Jim Jarmusch makes a comedy about the living dead and confirms the horror that the contemporary world inspires him. A world that has nothing left to offer. Its best fruits have already been picked.
Jim Jarmusch. He was born in Akron (Ohio), the son of an American theater director of Irish and German descent and an American entrepreneur of Czech and German origins. Up to seventeen years Jarmusch lives in Akron after which he moves to Chicago to study journalism at the School of Journalism of Northwestern University. He spent only one year in the city of Illinois, then went to New York to attend literature at Columbia University. In these years he writes several prose and poetry texts, some of which are published in Columbia Review, a Columbia University magazine. In 1973 Jarmusch moved nine months to Paris for a research on André Breton and surrealism. The theories underlying the French artistic current will profoundly influence the director's future film poetics. Furthermore, in Paris, the author discovers the strong interest in cinema and regularly visits the cinemathèque. Once back in New York Jarmusch graduated from Columbia University in literature.
