Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ starts Cannes off on an apocalyptic note
LA TimesFilm Critic Times critic Justin Chang is filing regular dispatches from the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 14-25 in France. In “The Dead Don’t Die,” Jim Jarmusch’s bleak, bone-dry shrug of a horror-comedy, Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Chloë Sevigny play small-town police officers fending off a zombie apocalypse. If you walk into “The Dead Don’t Die” marveling at the oddity of Jim Jarmusch making a zombie movie, you are likely to walk out thinking it’s the only zombie movie Jarmusch could have made. It also served to remind all of us in the audience that, after last year’s relatively slim Hollywood presence, the 2019 festival lineup would boast a bonanza of high-profile American titles, including Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and Ira Sachs’ “Frankie,” plus a splashy studio offering in the form of “Rocketman,” the Elton John biopic from the British director Dexter Fletcher. Jim Jarmusch, from left, Sara Driver, Tilda Swinton, Luka Sabbat, Adam Driver, Selena Gomez and Chloë Sevigny arrive at the Cannes premiere of “The Dead Don’t Die.” I attended my first Festival de Cannes in 2006.
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