The Dead Don't Die
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
In the peaceful country town of Centerville, something is not right. Animals are behaving strangely, night is failing to fall, the media are reporting mysterious phenomena, telephones and watches stop working, and above all: the inhabitants are being attacked by zombies who have risen from their graves. Three policemen and a mysterious Scottish woman team up to try and defeat them....
The trailer is in English original version, but the movie will be presented with some French subtitles.
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch was introduced to cinema by his mother, who would drop him off at the local movie theater while she went shopping. Influenced by Antonioni, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, whom he discovered at the Cinémathèque française, he enrolled in New York University to study film. His graduation film, Permanent Vacation, was featured in numerous festivals in 1980. The characteristics that would define Jarmusch's style and screenplays were already there: disillusioned dandyism of anti-heroes, work in asceticism, penchant for outsiders, tendency to portray a strange, offbeat daily life. He then went on to direct films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, Down by Law (1986), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Broken Flowers (2005), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016).
