The 2019 Cannes Film Festival opened with Jim Jarmusch's 'The Dead Don't Die', a zombie horror-comedy that features a star-studded cast comprised of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Selena Gomez and Tilda Swinton.
Director Jim Jarmusch promotes his latest horror comedy at Cannes. Also pictured here are the film’s stars : Tilda Swinton, Selena Gomez and Bill Murray.
Set in a non-descript small town where the inhabitants start succumbing to a zombie apocalypse, ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ pokes fun at hipsters, US politics and a materialistic, smartphone-addicted world all at once.‘Watching nature decline at unprecedented rates in history is, for me, terrifying,’ Jarmusch, wearing his trademark dark glasses, told a news conference on Wednesday, after the film’s Tuesday evening premiere.
Laden with witty film references – including nods to George Romero’s cult 1968 zombie-fest ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ – the film also leans on self-aware ploys 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.
Asked alongside other cast members on Wednesday about his views on horror movies, Murray quipped: ‘I find Cannes frightening’. Jarmusch said the film’s environmental message was not meant to be overly dark or lay the blame with politicians, however.The film also hits out at US President Donald Trump at moments. Steve Buscemi – playing a character determined to keep trespassers at bay – dons a ‘Keep America White Again’ cap, echoing Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ campaign motto.
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