Cannes Review: The Dead Don’t Die Brings Jim Jarmusch’s Intimate Touch to the World of Zombies

Jim Jarmusch’s deadpan zombie-invasion haiku tone poem The Dead Don’t Die opened the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, and it’s hard to say if it was a daring choice for an opener or a “We can’t really find anything else that will work” shrug.

Jim Jarmusch’s deadpan zombie-invasion haiku tone poem The Dead Don’t Die opened the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, and it’s hard to say if it was a daring choice for an opener or a “We can’t really find anything else that will work” shrug.