With a glamorous cast of flesh-eating undead including Iggy Pop, U.S. filmmaker ...
CANNES, France - With a glamorous cast of flesh-eating undead including Iggy Pop, U.S. filmmaker Jim Jarmusch kicked off Cannes’ cinema showcase on Tuesday with an acerbic swipe at American society - though the zombie romp lacked the bite some critics had hoped for.
Set in a non-descript small town where the inhabitants start succumbing to a zombie apocalypse, “The Dead Don’t Die” takes aim at climate change deniers, U.S. politics and a materialistic, smartphone-addicted world all at once. Laden with witty film references - including nods to George Romero’s cult 1968 zombie-fest “Night Of The Living Dead” - the film plays with the artifice of movie-making, with self-aware moments where actors discuss its plotline.“Jarmusch’s movie is in danger of succumbing to a zombie-ism of its own: a narcotic torpor of self-aware coolness,” the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote, describing the film as a “droll if directionless riff.
Its well-meaning cops display little by way of a game-plan throughout to combat the increasingly hairy zombie invasion.
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