Dead Man18

Directed by Jim Jarmusch | USA | 1995 | 2h | Starring Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Henriksen, Alfred Molina

Accountant William Blake has hardly arrived in a godforsaken outpost of the American West before he’s caught in a fatal lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the run, he falls under the watch of an outcast named Nobody, who guides him on a spiritual odyssey. Jim Jarmusch imagines the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, reckoning with industrialisation, America’s legacy of violence, and the natural cycle of life and death. Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique take on the western genre.

American Odysseys

Reviews

‘Jim Jarmusch’s most stunning achievement.’
★★★★★
|Zach Campbell, Slant Magazine

‘A quantum leap by American independent Jim Jarmusch–a hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western.’
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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