THE DAMNED DON’T CRY This may be the perfect noir title. It was coined in 1939 by screenwriter Harry Hervey for a melodramatic Southern potboiler, was nabbed in 1950 for an unrelated hardboiled Joan Crawford vehicle, was the title of the last hit single for Visage in 1982 and was pastiched by Jim Jarmusch in his 2019 zomcom, The Dead Don’t Die.
In 2023 it’s the title of British-Moroccan director Fyzal Boulifa’s second feature. His 2019 debut, , was a baleful tale of girlhood friendship curdling on an Essex council estate, and the new film is a similarly pitiless account of mutual dependency turning to
