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THE DEAD DON’T DIE

OUT 26 SEPTEMBER RATED TBC / 105 MINS

DIRECTOR Jim Jarmusch

CAST Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover

PLOT After polar fracking sends Earth off its axis, the residents of the sleepy town of Centerville start to notice some strange events: the days are longer, the animals have all disappeared — and the dead are rising.

JIM JARMUSCH IS no stranger to visiting other worlds. In , he went Western; in , he, he hung out in a cool-as-fuck rock star vampire world. But whatever his flirtations with genre, every Jarmusch film remains recognisably Jarmuschian. follows that trend, blending his signature low-key style with some high-end genre affectations. But the tension between the two worlds is never quite resolved.

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