Bill Murray, Adam Driver and more on Jim Jarmusch and zom-com 'The Dead Don't Die'
In a remarkably singular and widely influential career, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has never stopped exploring and evolving. Each new film contains his trademark droll humor, observant visual style and purposefully underplayed performances. From frequent road trips to a period western, a contemporary samurai film, an espionage thriller or a vampire movie, his work is always full of the unexpected.
In "The Dead Don't Die," Jarmusch's latest film, a small town is beset by the undead after the Earth is set off its axis by man-made environmental changes. In a purposeful nod to the zombie movies of George Romero such as "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead," a deep current of social and political awareness runs throughout. The film is both playfully absurd and bracingly earnest, funny until it isn't and the tone shifts to one of frustration, resignation and sadness. Is it too late to save ourselves, the movie seems to be asking, dismayed by the answer.
"The Dead Don't Die" features at least one actor from every
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